Famous Quotes & Sayings

Neil Cavuto

We're a nation of liars. But I mean that in the kindest sense.

R. C. Sproul

If you are of the truth, if you have learned the truth, if you see the sanctity of the truth, then speak truth. We are not called to be deceivers or liars. God is a God of truth, and His people are called to have an enormously high standard of truth.

NeNe Leakes

Let me get you to understand I don't bully anybody. I stand up for what I believe in and I'm very honest and I always tell the truth. I'm not a liar, I'm not manipulative and I don't stab you in your back because I will stab you in your chest.

Niccolo Machiavelli

I don't doubt that every prince would like to be both; but since it is hard to accomodate these qualities, if you have to make a choice, to be feared is much safer than to be loved. For it is a good general rule about men, that they are ungrateful, fickle, liars, and deceivers, fearful of danger and greedy for gain....[love] is a link of obligation which men, because they are rotten, will break anything they think doing so serves their advantage; but fear involves dread of punishment, from which they can never escape.

Niccolo Machiavelli

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

Kristen Stewart

I want to go to college for literature. I want to be a writer. I mean, I love what I do, but its not all I want to do-be a professional liar for the rest of my life.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

We don't believe a liar even when he tells the truth.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

A liar is not believed even though he tell the truth.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Never was a government that was not composed of liars, malefactors and thieves.

Margaret Deland

... if a man really and truly believed that black was white, you might advise him to see an oculist, but you mustn't call him a liar.

Mark Twain

There are two types of speakers: those that are nervous and those that are liars.

Oscar Wilde

The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure. He is the very basis of civilized society.

Oscar Wilde

The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company.

Melanie Laurent

When I think it's good not to say the truth, I don't say anything. I don't like actors in general, they lie, they are liars, trust me.

Mark Twain

Figures don't lie, but liars figure.

Mark Twain

There are three kinds of liars: liars, damned liars, and statisticians

Mark Twain

There are only two types of speakers in the world. 1. The nervous and 2. Liars.

Mark Twain

A mine is a hole in the ground with a liar on top.

Mark Twain

... an experienced, industrious, ambitious, and often quite often picturesque liar.

Marya Hornbacher

If I had been a different sort of person, maybe less impressionable, less intense, less fearful, less utterly dependent upon the perceptions of others - maybe then I would not have bought the cultural party line that thinness is the be-all and end-all of goals. Maybe if my family had not been in utter chaos most of the time, maybe if my parents were a little better at dealing with their own lives maybe if I'd gotten help sooner, or if I'd gotten different help, maybe if I didn't so fiercely cherish my secret, or if I were not such a good liar, or were not quite so empty inside... maybe.

Martha Gellhorn

All politicians are bores and liars and fakes. I talk to people.

Michel de Montaigne

If falsehood, like truth, had but one face, we would be more on equal terms. For we would consider the contrary of what the liar said to be certain. But the opposite of truth has a hundred thousand faces and an infinite field.

Michel de Montaigne

A liar would be brave toward God, while he is a coward toward men; for a lie faces God, and shrinks from man.

Michael Haneke

Even the most elitist director or author who claims that he doesn't care if his works are seen or not, then I have to think that he's either a liar or a hypocrite.

Frank Miller

A gun is a liar's weapon

Harry Frankfurt

Someone who lies and someone who tells the truth are playing on opposite sides, so to speak, in the same game. Each responds to the facts as he understands them, although the response of the one is guided by the authority of the truth, while the response of the other defies that authority and refuses to meet its demands. The bullshitter ignores these demands altogether. He does not reject the authority of the truth, as the liar does, and oppose himself to it. He pays no attention to it at all. By virtue of this, bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are.

Harry Frankfurt

The bullshitter is neither on the side of the true or the side of the false. His eye is not on the facts at all. He does not reject the authority of the truth, as the liar does, and oppose himself to it. He pays no attention to it at all. By virtue of this, bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are.

George Mikes

If somebody tells you an obviously untrue story, on the Continent you would remark, "You are a liar, Sir, and a rather dirty one at that." In England you just say "Oh, is that so?" Or "That's rather an unusual story, isn't it?

Fyodor Dostoevsky

With old liars who have been acting all their lives there are moments when they enter so completely into their part that they tremble or shed tears in earnest, although at that very moment, or a second later, they are able to whisper to themselves, "You know you are lying, you shameless old sinner! You're acting now, in spite of your 'holy' wrath.

Friedrich Nietzsche

He who does not need to lie is proud of not being a liar.

Friedrich Nietzsche

No one is such a liar as the indignant man.

Mila Kunis

It's very possible that I could look like a kleptomaniac and a pathological liar and that's why I keep getting hired.

Joseph Addison

How is it possible for those who are men of honor in their persons, thus to become notorious liars in their party