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• ...and wondering where he had read that clever liars give details, but that the cleverest do not.

  Edith Wharton

  Clever, Giving, Details

  Edith Wharton (2015). “The Age of Innocence”, p.239, Booklassic

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• When your little child tells a lie, do not rush at him as though the world were about to go into bankruptcy. Be honest with him. A tyrant father will have liars for his children; do you know that? A lie is born of tyranny upon the one hand and weakness upon the other, and when you rush at a poor little boy with a club in your hand, of course he lies.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Children, Kindness, Father

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1920). “Ingersoll: Fifty Great Selections, Lectures, Tributes, After Dinner Speeches and Essays, Carefully Selected from the Twelve Volume Dresden Edition of Colonel Ingersoll's Complete Works”

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• This arch-liar today shows that Britain never was in a position to wage war alone. This gabbler, this drunkard Churchill. And then his accomplice in the White House, this mad fool.

  Adolf Hitler

  War, White, History

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• Four liars are about to be burned -A

  Sara Shepard

  Four, Burned

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• Are you insinuatin' that my daughter is a liar?" "Oh, no, not at all. I'm saying your daughter is a liar. Surely you can appreciate the difference.

  Kami Garcia

  Daughter, Differences, Appreciate

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• Tradition usually rests upon something which men did know; history is often the manufacture of the mere liar.

  Jefferson Davis

  Men, History, Tradition

  Jefferson Davis (1876). “Scotland & the Scottish People: An Address Delivered in the City of Memphis, Tennessee, on St. Andrew's-Day, 1875”

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• Golf does strange things to other people, too. It makes liars out of honest men, cheats out of altruists, cowards out of brave men and fools out of everybody.

  Milt Gross

  Golf, Men, People

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• Cheats, liars and criminals may resist every blandishment while respectable gentlemen have been moved to appalling treasons by watery cabbage in a departmental canteen.

  John le Carre

  Loyalty, Gentleman, Criminals

  The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963).

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• A liar goes in fine clothes, a liar goes in rags, a liar is a liar, clothes or no clothes.

  Carl Sandburg

  Lying, Clothes, Rags

  Carl Sandburg (1921). “Smoke and Steel”

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• That's what you get for telling the truth. Someone calls you a liar. Most people will accept a likely lie to an unlikely truth. In fact, they prefer it.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Lying, People, Facts

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 1-5”, p.188, Penguin

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• That's the problem with the truth," Darcy said. "Liars and honest men both claim to have it.

  Hugh Howey

  Men, Honest, Problem

  Hugh Howey (2014). “The Wool Trilogy: Wool, Shift, Dust”, p.995, Random House

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• I would be a liar if I said I don't care [about my appearance]; yes, I care. I found it very difficult, when I first became well known, to read criticism about how I look, how messy my hair was, and how generally unkempt I look. The nastiest thing ever written was written by a man, and I do remember that. I wasn't looking for it either, it was just simply in the newspaper I was reading.

  J. K. Rowling

  Wise, Witty, Reading

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• A liar ought to have a good memory.

  Quintilian

  Memories, Army, Ought

  Quintilian (1873). “Quintilian's Institutes of Oratory: Or, Education of an Orator”, p.292

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• There's something evil in me that loves evil and degradation--purity's black backside! That loves honesty with a horrid love; or why have I always gone seeking it at the liar's door?

  Djuna Barnes

  Honesty, Doors, Evil

  Djuna Barnes, Thomas Stearns Eliot (2006). “Nightwood”, p.144, New Directions Publishing

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• I'm concerned about a better world. I'm concerned about justice; I'm concerned about brotherhood; I'm concerned about truth. And when one is concerned about that, he can never advocate violence. For through violence you may murder a murderer, but you can't murder murder. Through violence you may murder a liar, but you can't establish truth. Through violence you may murder a hater, but you can't murder hate through violence. Darkness cannot put out darkness; only light can do that.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Motivational, Hate, Light

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.204, Beacon Press

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• All I cared was that she had never lied. She was honest in a world just the opposite, and a cool oasis in my life. She was who she said she was, and everything Sophia, my mother, the pathologically manipulative liar, had never been.

  Rob Thurman

  Mother, Oasis, Opposites

  Rob Thurman (2009). “Deathwish”, p.34, Penguin

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• How many times do you get to lie before you are a liar?

  Michael Josephson

  Trust, Betrayal, Integrity

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• You are lovable. Can you show me any baby in any nursery who isn't priceless? No. There's no such thing as a worthless newborn. And the essential value that was born into brand-new-baby you can never be extinguished. This means that even if you think you're being absolutely honest, believing yourself to be anything other than astonishing, incomparable, and infinitely precious makes you a habitual liar.

  Martha Beck

  Baby, Believe, Mean

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• I know how easy it is for one to stay well within moral, ethical, and legal bounds through the skillful use of words - and to thereby spin, sidestep, circumvent, or bend a truth completely out of shape. To that extent, we are all liars on numerous occasions.

  Sidney Poitier

  Use, Shapes, Moral

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• I was not much afraid of punishment, I was only afraid of disgrace.But that I feared more than death, more than crime, more than anything in the world. I should have rejoiced if the earth had swallowed me up and stifled me in the abyss. But my invincible sense of shame prevailed over everything . It was my shame that made me impudent, and the more wickedly I behaved the bolder my fear of confession made me. I saw nothing but the horror of being found out, of being publicly proclaimed, to my face, as a thief, as a liar, and slanderer.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Should Have, Punishment, Thieves

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1971). “The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau”

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• Though Alec had never seen the occupants of the first floor loft, they seemed to be engaged in a tempestuous romance. Once there had been a bunch of someone's belongings strewn all over the landing with a note attached to a jacket lapel addressed to "A lying liar who lies." Right now there was a bouquet of flowers taped to the door with a card tucked among the blooms that read I'M SORRY. That was the thing about New York: you always knew more about your neighbors' business than you wanted to.

  Cassandra Clare

  New York, Sorry, Lying

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “City of Lost Souls”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• There was only today to throw yourself into without thinking about tomorrow, let alone forever. To keep you from thinking, there was liquor, an ocean's worth at least, all the usual vices and plenty of rope to hang yourself with. Love is a beautiful liar.

  Paula McLain

  Beautiful, Ocean, Love Is

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• I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life.

  J. D. Salinger

  Lying, Literature, Saws

  J.D. Salinger (1951). “The Catcher in the Rye”

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• The woman who says, 'My kids are all speaking to one another and they love us' is a psychopathic liar.

  Erma Bombeck

  Kids, Psychopathic

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• The liar often suffers from amnesia. Amnesia is the silence of the unconscious.

  Adrienne Rich

  Lying, Silence, Suffering

  Adrienne Rich (2002). “Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations”, p.21, W. W. Norton & Company

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