Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jonah Goldberg

Those who say they dislike dogma, or 'certainty', tend to be liars, hypocrites, or simply wrong. What they really dislike is the dogma of those they disagree with. A society that was certain, certain beyond all certainty, that putting its citizens in death camps was wrong, would never put people in death camps. Such things are only possible when you're open to new ideas.

Jonah Goldberg

The logical upshot of liberalism's hatred of hypocrisy is that it is better for the liar to champion lying, the glutton to advocate gluttony, the adulterer to celebrate adultery, than for someone to preach the right thing if he himself occasionally does the wrong thing. Better to let your failings define you and be happy about it, than to let your ideals define you but then fall short of them, for that opens you up to the charge of hypocrisy.

Justine Larbalestier

My father is a liar and so am I. But I’m going to stop. I have to stop. I will tell you my story and I will tell it straight. No lies, no omissions. That’s my promise. This time I truly mean it.

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.

Tennessee Williams

The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!

Tennessee Williams

Maggie, we're through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.

Ted Haggard

The fact is I am guilty of sexual immorality. And I take responsibility for the entire problem. I am a deceiver and a liar. There’s a part of my life that is so repulsive and dark that I have been warring against it for all of my adult life,

Tucker Carlson

Bill Clinton is a liar, a perverted kind of a guy anyway, and he is always stroking black folks rather than telling them the truth.

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.

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.

Johnny Cash

I wear my crown of thorns on my liars chair, full of broken thoughts I cannot repair, beneath the stain of time the feelings disappears. What have I become, my sweetest of friends?

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

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.

Jimmy Moore

The fly angler who says they have never, ever fallen while wading , is either a pathogenic liar, or has never been fly-fishing.

Jim Thompson

I ain't saying you're a liar, because that wouldn't be polite. But I'll tell you this, ma'am. If I loved liars, I'd hug you to death.

Lloyd Alexander

A man who claims to be fearless is an idiot or a liar.

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.

Holly Black

He's the kind of liar who totally forgets what he told you the last time, but he believes every single lie with such conviction that sometimes he can convince you of it.

Holly Black

We are, largely, who we remember ourselves to be. That's why habits are so hard to break. If we know ourselves to be liars, we expect not to tell the truth. If we think of ourselves as honest, we try harder.

Holly Black

She looks honestly upset, but then, I’ve learned that I can’t read her. The problem with a really excellent liar is that you have to just assume they’re always lying.

John Irving

All men are liars, said Roberta Muldoon, who knew this was true because she had once been a man.

John Gunther

The camera is one of the greatest liars of our time.

Frankie Muniz

There was a scene cut out of 'Big Fat Liar' (2002) where I had to wear a dress. This may sound kind of weird, but I really enjoyed shooting that scene.

James Packer

I may be a f..kwit but I'm not a liar. I was a believer.

James L. Farmer, Jr.

Anyone who said he wasn't afraid during the civil rights movement was either a liar or without imagination. I was scared all the time. My hands didn't shake but inside I was shaking.

Jim Rohn

Leaders must not be naive. I used to say, "Liars shouldn't lie." What a sad waste of words that is! I found out liars are supposed to lie. That's why we call them liars - they lie! What else would you expect them to do?

Elizabeth Gilbert

Everything was a miracle until we solved it. ... the first man who ever saw a flying fish probably thought he was witnessing a miracle - and the first man who ever described a flying fish was doubtless called a liar.

Elaine Stritch

I love reviews. Anybody who tells you they don't read reviews is a liar.

Leo Tolstoy

Be bad, but at least don't be a liar, a deceiver!

Lester Bangs

All blues singers are great liars.