Liars Quotes - Page 25

• Look at the coded language the Right is using against President Barack Obama. Openly calling him a liar in Congress, saying he is 'not a Christian, he was not born here, he is not one of us.' That makes addressing such issues trickier for the first African-American in the White House.

  Jesse Jackson

  Christian, White, Issues

  "Some Layer of the Excitement is Gone". SPIEGEL interview, www.spiegel.de. August 8, 2011.

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• ...leaders who do not hold their people accountable to a set standard are, in effect, thieves and liars. Thieves because they are stealing from the stockholder who pays them to hold people accountable, and liars because they pretend that everything is OK with their people when in fact everything is not OK.

  James Hunter

  People, Leader, Accountability

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• You’ve always got me” “Always?” “Didn’t I just say so?” “Yes” “Am I liar? “ “No.” I lied.

  Clive Barker

  Lied

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• It is a little-known fact about covert operations that you will spend a lot of time with people you can’t really trust. They may be traitors and liars. We call them assets or informants. But mostly, in those days, I called him Zach.

  Ally Carter

  People, May, Littles

  Ally Carter (2011). “Only the Good Spy Young”, p.214, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Plato, by the way, wanted to banish all poets from his proposed Utopia because they were liars. The truth was that Plato knew philosophers couldn't compete successfully with poets.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Plato, Way, Philosopher

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• As a pastor and as a dad, I want my son to know I tell the truth. He can read the book. He knows if I exaggerated or if I didn't. My son is forever gonna believe that I'm an honest person or I'm a liar by what I wrote in that book, because he can read.

  Todd Burpo

  Dad, Believe, Book

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• I cannot bear Netanyahu, he’s a liar.

  Nicolas Sarkozy

  Bears

  "Obama and Sarkozy Are Appeasers to Evil" by Michael Goodwin, www.foxnews.com. November 10, 2011.

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• I believe in God but people are liars. It's those people who say they are appointed by God who I don't believe in.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Truth, Believe, People

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• The world makes liars of us all.

  Kevin Powers

  World

  Kevin Powers (2012). “The Yellow Birds”, p.35, Hachette UK

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• Who ever told you there is no such thing in the world as real, true, everlasting love? May the liar have his despicable tongue cut out!

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Real, Cutting, World

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• Regrets? I think everyone has regrets, and people who say they haven't are either liars or narcissists

  Lee Radziwill

  Regret, Thinking, People

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• Did the gods once mingle with humankind, or is Homer a visionary madman, or, what is worse, a mere poet, a maker-up of beautiful falsities, an elegant liar? I shall grapple with that perplexity, only to emerge as I went in, in a cloud of unknowing, if perhaps a little the wiser.

  Eva Brann

  Beautiful, Clouds, Littles

  Eva Brann “Homeric Moments: Clues to Delight in Reading the Odyssey and the Iliad”, Paul Dry Books

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• I once called the head of a network a liar. In hindsight, I should have called him an incompetent liar.

  Steven Levitan

  Should Have, Hindsight, Incompetent

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

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• But time in only another liar, so go along the wall a little further: if blackberries prove bitter there'll be mushrooms, fairy-ring mushrooms in the grass, sweetest of all fungi.

  William Carlos Williams

  Wall, Mushrooms, Littles

  William Carlos Williams (1971). “Imaginations”, p.31, New Directions Publishing

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• I knew when I grew up, I always wanted to be a liar, and if you're in television, you're lying because you're just pretending to be yourself much like I'm doing now.

  John Ritter

  Being Yourself, Lying, Television

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

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• Oh, Alan Ryves," she said. "You're such a fantastic liar. You are the smoothest con man of them all.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Men, Fantastic, Said

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2011). “Demon's Surrender”, p.230, Simon and Schuster

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• Has my tale turned you speechless? Come, curse me or kiss me or call me a liar. Something.

  George R. R. Martin

  Kissing, Kiss Me, Speechless

  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.1874, Bantam

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• LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words.

  Langston Hughes

  Democracy, Liberty, Use

  Langston Hughes (2001). “The Poems, 1951-1967”, p.221, University of Missouri Press

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• Someone once asked me what I want on my epitaph when I pass away. Just the words 'I tried.' That's what this game of life is all about. Trying. There's the tryers, the criers, and the liars.

  Mickey Rooney

  Games, Passing Away, Trying

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• In 1996, the late, great New York Times columnist William Safire published a column, 'Blizzard of lies,' in which he laid out a series of falsehoods by Hillary Rodham Clinton and declared 'Americans of all political persuasions are coming to the sad realization that our First Lady -€” a woman of undoubted talents who was a role model for many in her generation -€” is a congenital liar.'

  Marc Thiessen

  New York, Lying, Role Models

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• The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company.

  Oscar Wilde

  Lying, Stories, Amusement

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “A Critic in Pall Mall: Being Extracts from Reviews and Miscellanies”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

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• A liar is full of oaths.

  Pierre Corneille

  Lying, Oath

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• I am such a bad liar. I would like to lie, though.

  Natalie Imbruglia

  Lying

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Am I a liar in your eyes?" he asked passionately. "Little skeptic, you shall be convinced. What love have I for Miss Ingram? None: and that you know. What love has she for me? None: as I have taken pains to prove; I caused a rumor to reach her that my fortune was not a third of what was supposed, and after that I presented myself to see the result; it was coldness both from her and her mother. I would not-I could not-marry Miss Ingram. You-you strange-you almost unearthly thing!-I love as my own flesh. You-poor and obscure, and small and plain as you are-I entreat to accept me as a husband.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Mother, Pain, Husband

  Jane Eyre ch. 23 (1847)

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• FIB, n. A lie that has not cut its teeth. An habitual liar's nearest approach to truth: the perigee of his eccentric orbit.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Lying, Cutting, Orbit

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.80, University of Georgia Press

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