Famous Quotes & Sayings

Neil Cavuto

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

Harold Brodkey

I distrust summaries, any kind of gliding through time, any too great a claim that one is in control of what one recounts; I think someone who claims to understand but is obviously calk, someone who claims to write with emotion recollected in tranquility, is a fool and a liar. To understand is to tremble. To recollect is to re-enter and be riven. ... I admire the authority of being on one's knees in front of the event.

Jesse Ventura

A hero must be honorable, must have honor. And you can't have honor if you're a liar. There is no honor in lying,

Jay Leno

According to a recent survey, men say the first thing they notice about women is their eyes. And women say the first thing they notice about men is they're a bunch of liars.

Jason Isaacs

I think I was probably always a liar; I just get paid for it now.

Paul Harding

Contrary to all those times you've heard a writer confess at a reading that he writes fiction because he is a pathological liar, fiction writing is all about telling the truth.

Juan Rulfo

Every author that creates is a liar;literature is a lie,but from that lie, a recreation of reality is born. Therefore, recreating reality is one of the fundaments of creation.

Paul Fussell

Anyone telling about his travels must be a liar, . . . for if a traveler doesn't visit his narrative with the spirit and techniques of fiction, no one will want to hear it.

Patrick Rothfuss

You have to be a bit of a liar to tell a story the right way.

Patch Adams

My first reaction was that the adult world was fake and liars and basically worked for money and power. I didn't want to live in that world, so I spent a year, aged 17 to 18, trying to kill myself. I didn't want to live in a world of violence and injustice.

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.

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.

Kevin Powers

The world makes liars of us all.

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.

Jessica Simpson

And I'm the worst liar of all time.

Jerry Brown

We’re being ripped off and screwed by a bunch of liars, thieves, crooks, and criminals, and they’re not the folks below. Don’t look in the streets, look in the corporate suites.

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.

Hillary Clinton

Look, [Hillary Clinton] is been proven to be a liar on so many different ways. This is just another lie.

Hillary Clinton

Why do I have to keep proving to people that I am not a liar?!

Hillary Clinton

The American people are tired of liars and people who pretend to be something they're not.

Esther Forbes

they reminded me of the biggest liar I ever knew personally. Was a farmer, too. Reputation of pretty good farmer at that, but he lied so he had to hire another man to call his pigs.

Ernest Hemingway

People who write fiction, if they had not taken it up, might have become very successful liars.

Erma Bombeck

The woman who says, 'My kids are all speaking to one another and they love us' is a psychopathic liar.

Henry Miller

One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life.

Cassandra Clare

He's not a liar at all. Not about important things. He'll tell you horrible truths, but he won't lie." She paused before she added quietly: "That's why it's generally better not ask him anything unless you know you can stand to hear the answer.