Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lewis Hine

Photographs don’t lie, but liars may photograph

Lewis Black

Do you know what 'meteorologist' means in English? It means liar.

Joy Behar

I don't know what it's going to take for people to really wake up and understand that they [the Bush administration] are liars and they are murderers.

Justin Halpern

The worst thing you can be is a liar. . . . Okay, fine, yes, the worst thing you can be is a Nazi, but then number two is liar. Nazi one, liar two.

Lord Acton

A convinced man differs from a prejudiced man as an honest man from a liar.

Lois McMaster Bujold

But have you ever overheard two women discussing men? Men are crude liars, comparing their drabs, but women - I'd rather have [an] anatomist dissect me alive than to listen to the things the ladies say about us when they think they are alone.

Maimonides

Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen.

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.

Epictetus

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

Laurell K. Hamilton

That's what you get for telling the truth. Someone calls you a liar. Most people will accept a likely lie to an unlikely truth. In fact, they prefer it.

Langston Hughes

LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words.

John Cusack

I think any actor can probably identify with being a professional liar. You don't always look at yourself that way, but I know a lot of days I do.

Khalil Gibran

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

Mel Gibson

A guy said to me one time, something really profound, and it's so simple. It's that depression lies. It's a liar and you have to shut it down. There is nothing that alleviates it more than going out and doing something for someone else. It's almost like instant healing. Get away from yourself. People can't even get out of bed and it gets really severe. I've never been at that stage. Everyone goes through low and high and low and high and some people are blessed to be created on an even keel all the way through - but not me.

Pierre Corneille

A liar is always lavish of oaths. [Fr., Un menteur est toujours prodigue de serments.]

Pierre Corneille

A liar is full of oaths.

Philippa Gregory

One’s lover is one’s partner in observing and understanding the world. Marriage is a place where joint narratives are composed. If the lover is a liar then all your joint observations are unreliable. You will have to start all over again.

Pope Francis

Whoever says he is without sin is a liar or is blind.

Robert A. Heinlein

Once a man gets a reputation as a liar, he might as well be struck dumb, for people do not listen to the wind.

Robert A. Heinlein

Many older physicians had gone to their graves calling Pasteur a liar, a fool, or worse---and without examining evidence which their “common sense” told them was impossible.

Tom Hanks

I think 80 percent of the population are really great, caring people who will help you and tell you the truth. That's just the way it is. And I think 20 percent of the population are crooks and liars. It's just a fact.

Tina Fey

There is no one of-woman-born who does not like Red Lobster cheddar biscuits. Anyone who claims otherwise is a liar and a Socialist.

Sam Harris

Of course, the liar often imagines that he does no harm as long as his lies go undetected.

Sallust

It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths, to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest, and to make a good countenance without the help of good will.

Sabrina Carpenter

Honestly I'm not a huge TV person. The only show that I've seen every episode of is Pretty Little Liars. It's my favorite show. I wish I could get into other shows but I just don't have time!

Scott Peterson

Scott Peterson was a pathological liar to me - nothing he said was the truth.

Lincoln Kirstein

The candid camera is the greatest liar in the photographic family.... It is anarchic, naïve, and superficial.

Laura Anne Gilman

I am a trained professional liar. Do not read me as a textbook.

L. Ron Hubbard

Unethical conduct is actually the conduct of destruction and fear; lies are told because one is afraid of the consequences should one tell the truth; thus, the liar is inevitably a coward, the coward is inevitably a liar.

Thomas Aquinas

Christ was either liar, lunatic, or Lord!

Natalie Imbruglia

I am such a bad liar. I would like to lie, though.