Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hannah Arendt

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.

Guy de Maupassant

The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius.

Gore Vidal

Celebrities are invariably celebrity-mad, just as liars always believe liars.

James Branch Cabell

If we assiduously cultivate our powers of exaggeration, perhaps we, too, shall obtain the Paradise of Liars. And there Raphael shall paint for us scores and scores of his manifestly impossible pictures ... and Shakespeare will lie to us of fabulous islands far past 'the still-vex'd Bermoothes,' and bring us fresh tales from the coast of Bohemia. For no one will speak the truth there, and we shall all be perfectly happy.

J. William Fulbright

When public men indulge themselves in abuse, when they deny others a fair trial, when they resort to innuendo and insinuation, to libel, scandal, and suspicion, then our democratic society is outraged, and democracy is baffled. It has no apparatus to deal with the boor, the liar, the lout, and the antidemocrat in general.

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.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Success has always been the greatest liar - and the "work" itself is a success; the great statesman, the conqueror, the discoverer is disguised by his creations, often beyond recognition; the "work," whether of the artist or the philosopher, invents the man who has created it, who is supposed to have create it; "great men," as they are venerated, are subsequent pieces of wretched minor fiction

Christopher Hitchens

I was taught very early on that the state can be, and is, a liar and a murderer.

Frank Miller

A gun is a liar's weapon

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.

George Ball

Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

Gennifer Flowers

Let me tell you this, if I had wanted to have a library of audio and videotapes of Bill Clinton, I could have had that. And after I was accused of being a liar, I wished that I had of.

Epictetus

Liars are the cause of all the sins and crimes in the world.

Edward Weston

When money enters in - then, for a price, I become a liar - and a good one I can be whether with pencil or subtle lighting or viewpoint. I hate it all, but so do I support not only my family, but my own work.

Norman MacCaig

I learned words, I learned words; but half of them died from lack of exercise. And the ones I use often look at me with a look that whispers, Liar.

O. Henry

All of us have to be prevaricators, hypocrites, and liars every day of our lives; otherwise the social structure would fall into pieces the first day. We must act in one another's presence just as we must wear clothes. It is for the best

Octavia Butler

Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.

Joseph Addison

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

Jose Mourinho

If at the end of the season I'm leaving the club, you have the right to come to me and say: 'Jose, you are a liar'

Kevin Bacon

There are two types of actors: those who say they don't want to be famous and those who are liars.

Khalil Gibran

A thief is a man in need. A liar is a man in fear.

George R. R. Martin

When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say.

Jean Cocteau

The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.

Seth Godin

All Marketers are liars tell stories,

Sissela Bok

Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived.

Michael Moore

I would like to apologize for referring to George W. Bush as a 'deserter.' What I meant to say is that George W. Bush is a deserter, an election thief, a drunk driver, a WMD liar, and a functional illiterate. And he poops his pants

Sherrilyn Kenyon

I can’t believe you were going to call me a liar and take my place under the guillotine. Next time I try to save you, woman, you better stay saved. (Fury)

Nina Bawden

All writers are liars. They twist events to suit themselves. They make use of their own tragedies to make a better story... They are terrible people.

Nicolas Sarkozy

I cannot bear Netanyahu, he’s a liar,

James Connolly

Ireland, as distinct from her people, is nothing to me; and the man who is bubbling over with love and enthusiasm for "Ireland," and can yet pass unmoved through our streets and witness all the wrong and the suffering, shame and degradation wrought upon the people of Ireland-yea, wrought by Irishmen upon Irish men and women, without burning to end it, is, in my opinion, a fraud and a liar in his heart, no matter how he loves that combination of chemical elements he is pleased to call Ireland.

James Cook

Liars seldom believe anyone else.