Liars Quotes - Page 19

• A person who has no secrets is a liar. We always fold ourselves away from others just enough to preserve a secret or two, something that we cannot share without destroying our inner landscape.

  Anne Roiphe

  Two, Secret, Landscape

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• His whole body was completely still, except the wings, which were still fluttering a little, like when someone dies. That's when he finally understood that of all the things the angel had told him, nothing was true. That he wasn't even an angel, just a liar with wings.

  Etgar Keret

  Angel, Wings, Body

  Etgar Keret (2015). “The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God & Other Stories”, p.15, Penguin

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• There is no one of-woman-born who does not like Red Lobster cheddar biscuits. Anyone who claims otherwise is a liar and a Socialist.

  Tina Fey

  Food, Doe, Lobster

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• That's good; don't deny it. Denying the undeniable just makes you sound like a fool as well as a liar. In this profession, you can be one- sometimes the other. But never both.

  Ally Carter

  Sound, Fool, Sometimes

  Ally Carter (2011). “Only the Good Spy Young”, p.193, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I think that you are the liar!" I say, my voice quaking. "You tell me you love me, you trust me, you think I'm more perceptive than the average person. And the first second that belief in my perceptiveness, that trust, that love is put to the test, it falls apart." I am crying now, but I am not ashamed of the tears shining on my cheeks or the thickness of my voice. "So you must have lied when you told me all those things... you must have, because I can't believe your love is really that feeble.

  Veronica Roth

  Believe, Fall, Love Is

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• Look, I'm not a demon here. I don't eat babies or kick puppies. I just tell the truth." She shrugged. "Can I help it if that makes the liars of the world angry?

  Maggie Shayne

  Baby, Looks, World

  Charlaine Harris, Maggie Shayne, Barbara Hambly (2009). “Night's Edge: Dancers in the Dark\Her Best Enemy\Someone Else's Shadow”, p.139, HQN Books

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• The biggest liar in the world is the golfer who claims he plays the game for exercise.

  Tommy Bolt

  Funny, Humorous, Exercise

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• What is a writer of fiction but a liar with a licence?

  Joanne Harris

  Fiction

  "Blueeyedboy". Book by Joanne Harris, 2010.

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• Strangers see you the way you want them to see you. You can't fool friends…that's what makes them friends... Pretty Little Liars

  Sara Shepard

  Want, Littles, Way

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• I always knew I was an excellent liar; I just didn't know that I had it in me to fool myself.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Fool, Excellent, Knows

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• All stories are true,” Skarpi said. “But this one really happened, if that’s what you mean.” He took another slow drink, then smiled again, his bright eyes dancing. “More or less. You have to be a bit of a liar to tell a story the right way. Too much truth confuses the facts. Too much honesty makes you sound insincere.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Honesty, Mean, Eye

  "The Name of the Wind". Book by Patrick Rothfuss, Chapter 26, "Lanre Turned" (p. 203), 2007.

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• Is it possible to tell the truth in a society of lies? Or must you always, of necessity, become a liar?

  Lauren Oliver

  Lying, Telling The Truth

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• My father told me all about the birds and the bees, the liar - I went steady with a woodpecker till I was twenty one.

  Bob Hope

  Witty, Sex, Father

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• Never trust a storyteller," he says. "We're all of us liars.

  Matthew J. Kirby

  Never Trust, Storyteller

  Matthew J. Kirby (2011). “Icefall”, p.161, Scholastic Inc.

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• A lover's a liar, To himself he lies, The truthful are loveless, Like oysters their eyes!

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Lying, Eye, Oysters

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• He was brother to a liar and brother to an angel, son of a dream and son of a dreamer.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Dream, Brother, Angel

  Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.385, Scholastic Inc.

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• We don't believe a liar even when he tells the truth.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Believe, Army, Telling The Truth

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• And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.

  William Faulkner

  Lying, Men, Scared

  William Faulkner (1985). “Novels, 1930-1935”, Library of America

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• Only the liar knows he's lying

  Jodi Picoult

  Lying, Knows

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• I'm not a liar, sir,' she said. "'No, I'm sure you sincerely become whatever it is you're pretending to be.

  Orson Scott Card

  Pretending, Said, Sincerely

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.1052, Macmillan

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• If only these walls could talk…the world would know just how hard it is to tell the truth in a story in which everyone’s a liar.

  Gregg Olsen

  Wall, Lying, Stories

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• Writers are damned liars. Every single one of them.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “A Gathering Light”, p.59, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• You're a liar!" He turned around, his black eyes snapping. "I'm also a thief, a gambler, a cheat, and a murdered. But this happens to be one of the rare times when I'm telling the truth. Go home. Consider yourself lucky. You've got a chance to start fresh. Not everyone can say the same.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Home, Eye, Black

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2011). “Silence”, p.114, Simon and Schuster

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• Everyone's a liar. Everyone I've ever known.

  Julie Anne Peters

  Known

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• Being a practiced liar doesn't mean you have a powerful imagination. Many good liars have no imagination at all; it's that which gives their lies such wide-eyed conviction.

  Philip Pullman

  Powerful, Lying, Mean

  Philip Pullman (1995). “Northern lights”

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