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• There are two types of people on social media: people who want more followers, and liars.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Media, Two, People

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• Human nature is rarely so amusing as when trying to get a house off its hands. Women at this task can be untruthful enough, but their untruth lacks the infusion of candor which a skillful male liar can introduce.

  E. V. Lucas

  Nature, Hands, House

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• Afterthought makes the first resolve a liar.

  Sophocles

  Firsts, Resolve, Afterthought

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus”, p.35, University of Chicago Press

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• We all know that a lie needs no other grounds, than the invention of the liar; and to take for granted as truth, all that is alleged against the fame of others, is a species of credulity, that men would blush at on any other subject.

  Jane Porter

  Lying, Men, Needs

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”

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• Lawyer even sounds like liar.

  Walter Mosley

  Sound, Lawyer

  Walter Mosley (2016). “Archibald Lawless, Anarchist at Large”, p.28, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• 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.

  J. William Fulbright

  Men, Indulge In, Abuse

  J. William Fulbright's speech in the Senate on McCarthyism (February 2, 1954), as quoted in "Congressional Record", Volume 100 (p. 1105), 1954.

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• Lord, Lord, how this world is given to lying!

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, World, Lord

  'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 5, sc. 4, l. [148]

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• I was brought up to never lie. Sure, I have. But in the final mix, the lies I've told are far outweighed by the truths I've lived.

  Kelsey Grammer

  Lying, Finals, Never Lie

  "Kelsey Grammer: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 15, 2009.

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• you're the liar" - Mimi Force

  Melissa de la Cruz

  Mimi, Force

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• I have a friend who is an excellent liar. His secret: Believe the lie yourself when you're telling it.

  Jack Heffron

  Lying, Believe, Secret

  Jack Heffron (2012). “The Writer's Idea Book 10th Anniversary Edition: How to Develop Great Ideas for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Screenplays”, p.100, Writer's Digest Books

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• But if you didn't have more urgent things to do after supper [in boot camp], you could write a letter, loaf, gossip, discuss the myriad mental shortcomings of sergeants and, dearest of all, talk about the female of the species (we became convinced that there was no such creatures, just mythology created by inflamed imaginations - one boy in our company claimed to have seen a girl, over at regimental headquarters; he was unanimously judged a liar and a braggart).

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Girl, Writing, Boys

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• A man does not need to be a wizard to know truth from falsehood, not if he has eyes. You need only learn to read a face. Look at the eyes. The mouth. The muscles here, at the corners of the jaw, and here, where the neck joins the shoulders." He touched her lightly with two fingers. "Some liars blink. Some stare. Some look away. Some lick their lips. Many coer their mouths just before they tell a lie, as if to hide their deceit. Other signs may be more subtle, but they are always there. A false smile and a true one may look alike, but they are as different as dusk from dawn.

  George R. R. Martin

  Lying, Eye, Men

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.2709, Bantam

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• I am convinced that those people whom the world considers good and respects are all liars and fakes. I do not trust the world. My only ally is the tagged dissolute. The tagged dissolute. That is the only cross on which I wish to be crucified. Though ten thousand people criticize me, I can throw in their teeth my challenge: Are you not all the more dangerous for being without tags?

  Osamu Dazai

  People, Fake, Challenges

  "The Setting Sun".

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• If you are a dreamer come in If you are a dreamer a wisher a liar A hoper a pray-er a magic-bean-buyer If youre a pretender com sit by my fire For we have some flax golden tales to spin Come in! Come in!

  Shel Silverstein

  Hope, Fire, Imagination

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• Make not Christ a liar in distrusting His promise.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Jesus, Promise, Christ

  Samuel Rutherford (1867). “Letters of the Rev. Samuel Rutherford”, p.342

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• There is an awful lot of difference between reading something and actually seeing it, for you can never tell, till you see it, just how big a liar History is.

  Will Rogers

  Reading, Differences, History

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

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

  Mark Twain

  Humorous, Ambitious, Picturesque

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• The Russians are liars - you can't trust them. At Potsdam they agreed to everything and broke their word. It's too bad the second world power is like this, but that's the way it is, and we must keep our strength.

  Harry S. Truman

  World, Way, Broke

  "The Memoirs of Richard Nixon". Book by Richard Nixon, 1978.

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• Children are overbearing, supercilious, passionate, envious, inquisitive, egotistical, idle, fickle, timid, intemperate, liars, and dissemblers; they laugh and weep easily, are excessive in their joys and sorrows, and that about the most trifling objects; they bear no pain, but like to inflict it on others; already they are men.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Children, Pain, Men

  "The "Characters" of Jean de la Bruyère". Book by Jean de La Bruyère. Translated by Henri Van Laun, 1885.

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• One of the best moments of any Liars show is hearing the crowd squawk 'We're doomed! We're doomed!' on cue during 'We Fenced Other Houses with the Bones of Our Own.' Maybe not the most uplifting audience sing-along in the indie rock world, but one of the most reliably entertaining.

  Rob Sheffield

  Uplifting, Rocks, Indie Rock

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• There never was a liar that had not a spot in him where he could not help admiring truth.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Lying, Helping, Spots

  Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1897). “The original Plymouth pulpit”

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• A liar is a man who does now know how to deceive, a flatterer one who only deceives fools: he who knows how to make skilful use of the truth, and understands its eloquence, can alone pride himself in cleverness.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Lying, Pride, Men

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• Any musician who says he is playing better either on tea, the needle, or when he is juiced, is a plain, straight liar. When I get too much to drink, I can't even finger well, let alone play decent ideas. You can miss the most important years of your life, the years of possible creation.

  Charlie Parker

  Years, Play, Ideas

  "Hear Me Talkin' to Ya: The Story of Jazz As Told by the Men Who Made It". Book edited by by Nat Shapiro and Nat Hentoff, p. 379, 1955.

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

  Elaine Stritch

  Reviews

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• If you get bored with nothing to do, you are not a writer ... We are in the business of reproducing reality from nothing. We are the biggest liars in the world, seeking truth.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Writing, Reality, Bored

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