Liars Quotes - Page 18

• So false is faction, and so smooth a liar,
  As that it never had a side entire.

  Samuel Daniel

  Sides, Smooth, Factions

  Samuel Daniel, George Sewell (1718). “The Poetical Works of Mr. Samuel Daniel, Author of the English History: To which is Prefix'd, Memoirs of His Life and Writings..”, p.232

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• You must remember garden catalogues are as big liars as house-agents.

  Rumer Godden

  Garden, House, Agents

  Rumer Godden (1984). “China Court”

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• There is a set of harmless liars, frequently to be met with in company, who deal much in the marvellous. Their usual intention is to please and entertain; but as men are most delighted with what they conceive to be the truth, these people mistake the means of pleasing, and incur universal blame.

  David Hume

  Mistake, Mean, Men

  David Hume (2013). “An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

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• ... if a man really and truly believed that black was white, you might advise him to see an oculist, but you mustn't call him a liar.

  Margaret Deland

  Men, White, Black

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• If you give way to fear, you'll be a coward; and ... a coward is apt to be a liar. The devil's first name is Fear.

  Margaret Deland

  Fear, Names, Giving

  Margaret Deland (2010). “Around Old Chester”, p.77, Wildside Press LLC

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• There is nothing so inconvenient in this world as an absolutely truthful person, who can both speak and write, and has the courage of his convictions. One can always arrange matters with liars ... But with the man or woman who holds truth dearer than life, and honor more valuable than advancement, there is nothing to be done, now that governments cannot insist on the hemlock-cure, as in the case of Socrates.

  Marie Corelli

  Truth, Writing, Men

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• I feel a lot of sympathy for the young women I've written about, including Younger Janice. I think that all of them (me in Girlbomb, Samantha in Have You Found Her, and Elizabeth in I, Liar) had some early family trauma that contributed to their dysfunctional methods of dealing with the world, but I wouldn't call them/myself victims - survivors, maybe, but not victims. Nor do I think of them/myself as con artists.

  Janice Erlbaum

  Artist, Thinking, Survivor

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Junkies are liars. They have to be professionally.

  Jerry Stahl

  Junkie

  "Jerry Stahl Talks Smack". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 25, 2013.

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

  Pierre Corneille

  Lying, Oath

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

  Jimmy Moore

  Rivers, Lakes, Sea

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• I told you I try not to live in the past and nothing could change the fact that my mum was gone. But I’m a liar. The truth was, I’d had one dream ever since I was six: to see my mum again. To actually get to know her, talk to her, go shopping, do anything. Just be with her once so I could have a better memory to hold on to.

  Rick Riordan

  Dream, Memories, Past

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Red Pyramid (The Kane Chronicles Book 1): The Red Pyramid”, p.85, Penguin UK

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• The trouble with a liar is he can't remember what he said.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Lying, Remember, Trouble

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• Even a small, everyday lie is a clue to the personality and preoccupations of the liar, like a dream or any other confection of the mind, that is half-conscious and half-unconscious, as all creative acts must be.

  Helen McCloy

  Dream, Lying, Personality

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• 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.

  Esther Forbes

  Lying, Men, Pigs

  ESTHER FORBES (1954). “Rainbow on the Road”

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• I wanted a drink. There were a hundred reasons why a man will want a drink, but I wanted one now for the most elementary reason of all. I didn't want to feel what I was feeling, and a voice within was telling me that I needed a drink, that I couldn't bear it without it. But that voice is a liar. You can always bear the pain. It'll hurt, it'll burn like acid in an open wound, but you can stand it. And, as long as you can make yourself go on choosing the pain over the relief, you can keep going.

  Lawrence Block

  Hurt, Pain, Men

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• Funny story: I was hanging out with Adam Shankman for Samantha Ronson's birthday, and Lance Bass was there. I don't really know Lance, but he comes over to me and goes, 'Hey, I just wanted to let you know I'm a fan of 'Pretty Little Liars' and I'm rooting for your character.' It was surreal! That's how 'PLL' has changed my life.

  Ryan Guzman

  Character, Hey, Bass

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I am a congenital liar. Some Highlanders are. To my ancestors, the truth was so sacred as to be unusable.

  Gladys Mitchell

  Lying, Sacred, Highlander

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• I just think people are so used to seeing me on shows like Vampire Diaries and Pretty Little Liars, which are more geared toward teens. But in reality, I could have a 12-year-old kid.

  Torrey DeVitto

  Kids, Reality, Thinking

  "How Torrey DeVitto Stabilized Her 'Crazy' Career". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. March 15, 2013.

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• As the greatest liar tells more truths than falsehoods, so may it be said of the worst man, that he does more good than evil.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Evil, Doe

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1859). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides”, p.147

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• Bush has said something new. He said, "If I will be president again, I will be a man of peace and serenity." May the Lord curse the liars, wherever they may be.

  Ali Meshkini

  Men, Serenity, President

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• I didn't lie; nobody calls me a liar, I may have increased my age.

  Frank Buckles

  Lying, Age, May

  "Last surviving U.S. World War I vet honored by president" by Paul Courson, edition.cnn.com. March 8, 2008.

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• A liar did ought to have a good memory.

  Flora Thompson

  Memories, Lying, Ought

  Flora Thompson, H. J. Massingham (2009). “Lark Rise to Candleford”, p.216, David R. Godine Publisher

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• A brilliant liar; he has total recall.

  Witold Gombrowicz

  Brilliant, Total Recall, Recalls

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• I don't debate with liars.

  Evo Morales

  Lying, Debate

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• Either Christ is a liar or war is never necessary, and very properly assuming that Christ told the truth, it follows that the State is without [in the words of Father Macksey] 'judicial authority to determine when war is necessary,' because it is never necessary.

  Ben Salmon

  Father, War, Assuming

  "Ben Salmon On War". Book by Ben Salmon, pp. 86 - 87, "Personal critique of just war doctrine", 1921.

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