Liars Quotes - Page 17

• And I, love, am a pathological liar.

  Sylvia Plath

  Pathological Liar

  Sylvia Plath (2015). “Collected Poems”, p.186, Faber & Faber

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• I loved him in that moment, loved him more than I'd ever loved anyone, and I wanted to to tell them all that I was the snake in the grass, the monster in the lake. I wasn't worthy of this sacrifice; I was a liar, a cheat, a thief. And I would have told, except that a part of me was glad. Glad that this would all be over with soon. Baba would dismiss them, there would be some pain, but life would move on. I wanted that, to move on, to forget, to start with a clean slate. I wanted to be able to breathe again.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Pain, Moving, Sacrifice

  Khaled Hosseini (2010). “The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set”, p.51, A&C Black

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• 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.

  Tom Hanks

  Caring, Thinking, People

  "Tom Hanks: I'm not always a nice guy". Interview with Tracy Smith, www.cbsnews.com. June 5, 2012.

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• Truth is truth, even when told by a liar.

  William Wallace

  Truth Is

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• "You could lie to me. You could tell me to be encouraged, that good will triumph over evil.""Good will triumph over evil," said Richard. "Liar."

  Joan Bauer

  Lying, Evil, Triumph

  "Squashed". Book by Joan Bauer, 1992.

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• 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.

  Joy Behar

  People, Wake Up, Administration

  "ABC's Joy Behar: Bush Administration 'Liars' and 'Murderers'" by Justin McCarthy, www.newsbusters.org. February 28, 2007.

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• John McCain is a liar and flip-flopper and panderer and bully and whiner. And it seems to be working.

  Michael Tomasky

  Bully, Flip, Whiners

  "Does being a jerk work?" by Michael Tomasky, www.theguardian.com. August 18, 2008.

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• 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

  Love Is, Men, Thinking

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• We can all be prouder to be human beings, because that's what they were. They make up for a lot of liars, cheats, and terrorists among us.

  Andy Rooney

  Cheat, Terrorist, Humans

  "Great lines from "60 Minutes" commentator Andy Rooney". www.cnn.com. November 5, 2011.

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• A lot of musicians are good cooks, and a lot of cooks are musicians, but I think that may just be a result of the creative impulse finding several means of expression. Probably an equivalent number are visual artists, woodworkers or compulsive liars.

  Steve Albini

  Mean, Artist, Thinking

  "Indie Rock Food Blogs: The Steve Albini Interview". Interview with Andrew Simmons, www.laweekly.com. May 17, 2011.

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• Even when I think of writing fiction, it's being kind of a liar, a storyteller, a weaver, and there's that sense of how much of this is your life. The story is a way you unravel your life from behind a mask.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Writing, Thinking, Fiction

  Interview David Barsamian, progressive.org. October 1, 2003.

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• If everyone lives roughly the same lies about the same thing, there is no one to call them liars. They jointly establish their own sanity and themselves normal.

  Ernest Becker

  Lying, Normal, Sanity

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• If you get into crime you gotta know that everybody's a criminal and everybody's a liar, and everybody has the potential to backstab you, because it's not an honest profession. So don't go into crime and look for honesty.

  Ice T

  Honesty, Criminals, Looks

  Source: thequietus.com

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• All pitchers are liars or crybabies.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Sports, Lying

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• I think any actor that says 'I never watch my films' is a liar because you have to watch it at least once and also you're going to watch it when you're doing your ADR.

  Cillian Murphy

  Thinking, Watches, Actors

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Dan Coats, retiring senator from Indiana, a mild-mannered man, a former United States ambassador to Germany, former congressman, said of Ted Cruz he's the most self-centered, narcissistic, pathological liar I have ever seen.And he said, you can quote me on that.

  Mark Shields

  Men, Self, Coats

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• For all that the papers would say I was a liar, I took the words I was saying at briefings as seriously as Tony Blair took what he would say at the Despatch Box. I find it very difficult not to tell the truth. I felt I was accountable for what I said.

  Alastair Campbell

  Paper, Telling The Truth, Boxes

  "Alastair Campbell on spin, Iraq and a recurring nightmare about Tony Blair and Gordon Brown". Interview with Simon Kelner, www.independent.co.uk. March 25, 2016.

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• I think any man who says he has never had an awkward moment with a girl, is a liar or he's delusional because he's sitting there thinking he is doing really well and the girl is thinking "Who is this man and why is he talking to me?"

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Girl, Men, Thinking

  "Interview: Dan Radcliffe, Emma Watson & Rupert Grint (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)". Interview with Dan Whitehead, trouble.city. October 26, 2005.

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• If you haven’t already clearly defined your values, you may find yourself making choices that conflict with what you want. If, for example, honesty is a big thing for you, but you hang out with liars, there’s a conflict. When your actions conflict with your values, you’ll end up unhappy, frustrated, and despondent. In fact, psychologists tell us that nothing creates more stress than when our actions and behaviors aren’t congruent with our values.

  Darren Hardy

  Honesty, Stress, Choices

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• Since Caesar, we know his historians are liars. The good writers get read. Bad history doesn't get read.

  Peter Greenaway

  Historian, Good Writers, Knows

  "'You have naked bodies and genitalia, don't you? Why are you so adolescent?': Director Peter Greenaway on 'Puritan' Americans and the intense sex scenes in 'Eisenstein in Guanajuato'". Interview with Gary M. Kramer, www.salon.com. February 4, 2016.

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• I think my favorite thing is when people send me Instagram photos of people's yearbooks, and one guy will put "Are you calling me a liar?," and his friend will have "I ain't calling you a truther." And those are people's actual yearbook quotes. That's so amazing.

  Drake Bell

  Yearbook, Thinking, People

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• Note to our readers - Donald Trump is a serial liar, rampant xenophobe, racist, misogynist, birther and bully who was repeatedly pledged to ban all Muslims - 1.6 million members of an entire religion - from entering the U.S.

  Ryan Grim

  Bully, Racist, Entering

  "Roundtable: Donald Trump's Media Tactics". "All Things Considered" with Michel Martin and Michael Oreskes, www.npr.org. January 30, 2016.

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• I will sing their praises, I'll sing Donald's [Trump] praises and Marco's [Rubio] praises and everybody else's praises. But I'm going to keep the focus on substance and records. And there's a reason why they scream "Liar." Because when you point to their own records, their own voting records, their own words, they don't like their records because their records are inconsistent with what they're running on.

  Ted Cruz

  Running, Focus, Voting

  "Meet the Press" with Chuck Todd, www.nbcnews.com. February 21, 2016.

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• The most encouraging trend of our time is the widespread loss of faith in government. No longer do people look to the government as the great problem solver, economic planner, social unifier, or cultural czar. The government is more likely to be seen for what it is, a haven for grafters, liars, and would-be tyrants. Americans, like the Russians, no longer believe anything until it is officially denied.

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  Believe, Loss, Government

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• Falsehood is a perennial spring.

  Edmund Burke

  Spring, Lying, Falsehood

  Speech 'On American Taxation' 19 April 1774

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