Liars Quotes - Page 26

• I was recently told, 'You're a liar!' when I said to somebody I walked down the spine of the Andes. Every Spaniard in the sixteenth, seventeenth century did that. The idea that somebody could just walk! He can jog perhaps in the morning, but he can't walk anywhere! The world has become inaccessible because we drive there.

  Ivan Illich

  Morning, Ideas, World

  "Land of Found Friends". "We the People" radio program with Jerry Brown on March 22, 1996. Whole Earth Review, No. 90, www.aislingmagazine.com. Summer 1997.

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• I do not," I felt oddly appalled by her statement. "I'm an excellent liar. Ask my dentist. He swears I floss regularly.

  Darynda Jones

  Dentist, Excellent, Swear

  Darynda Jones (2011). “Second Grave on the Left”, p.21, Macmillan

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• Success has always been the greatest liar - and the "work" itself is a success; the great statesman, the conqueror, the discoverer is disguised by his creations, often beyond recognition; the "work," whether of the artist or the philosopher, invents the man who has created it, who is supposed to have create it; "great men," as they are venerated, are subsequent pieces of wretched minor fiction

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Artist, Men, Fiction

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.408, Modern Library

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• It’s hard for everyone isn’t it? Anyone who says it’s easy is a liar. There’s this huge divide between me and Alex right now because I feel like we’re living in such different worlds, I don’t know what to talk about with him anymore. And we used to be able to talk all night. He phones once a week and I listen to what he’s been up to during the week and try to bite my tongue every time I go into another Katie story. Truth is I have nothing other to talk about but her and I know it bores people. I think I used to be interesting once upon a time.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Thinking, Night, Phones

  Cecelia Ahern (2005). “Rosie Dunne”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• I'm a really bad liar. My mom finds out every time, especially now that she's got Facebook.

  Pixie Lott

  Mom, My Mom

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• Ronan Lynch lived with every sort of secret. His first secret was himself. He was brother to a liar and brother to an angel, son of a dream and son of a dreamer. He was a warring star full of endless possibilities, but in the end, as he dreamt in the backseat on the way to the Barns that night, he created only this.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Dream, Brother, Stars

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

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• THE STORIES WE TELL fearlessly explores the textures of the human heart, finding a path toward hope through a Savannah that is jagged with class issues, faith misused, and broken trust. Henry loses you in a landscape peopled with secret keepers, storytellers and liars, and proves that in the end, love is the only reliable compass. This is everything you expect from Patti Callahan Henry—lyrical writing, characters worth rooting for, a sure-footed belief in the power of goodness—plus a twisty plot that will keep the pages turning long into the night.

  Joshilyn Jackson

  Character, Writing, Heart

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• We’re being ripped off and screwed by a bunch of liars, thieves, crooks, and criminals, and they’re not the folks below. Don’t look in the streets, look in the corporate suites.

  Jerry Brown

  Criminals, Thieves, Crooks

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• This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune,--often the surfeit of our own behavior,--we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars: as if we were villains by necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on: an admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star.

  William Shakespeare

  Stars, Men, Moon

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 1, sc. 2, l. [132]

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• When I think it's good not to say the truth, I don't say anything. I don't like actors in general, they lie, they are liars, trust me.

  Melanie Laurent

  Lying, Thinking, Say Anything

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• Provided they live a worthy life, both those who choose to dwell in the midst of noise and hubbub and those who dwell in monasteries, mountains and caves can achieve salvation. Solely because of their faith in Him God bestows great blessings on them. Hence those who because of their laziness have failed to attain salvation will have no excuse to offer on the day of judgment. For He who promised to grant us salvation simply on account of our faith in Him is not a liar.

  Symeon the New Theologian

  Christian, Blessing, Mountain

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• I'd rather take a beating sometimes than get in that gym every morning. Anyone who gets up that early and says he likes it is a goddamned liar. The only good thing about it is that when I'm finished, I look at myself in the mirror and say, "Jack, you've done it again!

  Jack LaLanne

  Morning, Mirrors, Likes

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• There was a scene cut out of Big Fat Liar where I had to wear a dress. This may sound kind of weird, but I really enjoyed shooting that scene.

  Frankie Muniz

  Cutting, Sound, Dresses

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

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• all religions seem alike to me, one mass of absurdities and lies - I know that there is a God, but I know no more of him; and I believe that all those are liars who pretend to know more than I do.

  Mary Martha Sherwood

  Lying, Believe, Religion

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• If somebody tells you an obviously untrue story, on the Continent you would remark, "You are a liar, Sir, and a rather dirty one at that." In England you just say "Oh, is that so?" Or "That's rather an unusual story, isn't it?

  George Mikes

  Dirty, Stories, England

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• Just as the liar 's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed , but that he cannot believe any one else; so a guilty society can more easily be persuaded that any apparently innocent act is guilty than that any apparently guilty act is innocent.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Believe, Punishment, Guilty

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.4190, e-artnow

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• They say that it is the practiced liar who can deceive. But so often the practiced and chronic liar deceives only himself; it is the man who all his life has been selfconvicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.

  William Faulkner

  Lying, Men, Deceiving

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

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• I don't believe any Western journalists, quite frankly. I believe they're liars until proven otherwise.

  Anjem Choudary

  Believe, Journalist, Western

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• The liar suffers twice: he neither believes nor is believed.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Lying, Believe, Suffering

  "The Art of Worldly Wisdom". Book by Baltasar Gracián. Maxim 154, 1647.

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• There are people who believe everything is sane and sensible that is done with a solemn face. ... It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth ... into a liar - that I call an achievement.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Art, Believe, Book

  "Aphorisms" by Georg C. Lichtenberg, ("Notebook E", E 59), (1775 - 1776).

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• There is the past and its continuing horrors: violence, war, prejudices against those who are different, outrageous monopolization of the good earth's wealth by a few, political power in the hands of liars and murderers, the building of prisons instead of schools, the poisoning of the press and the entire culture by money. It is easy to become discouraged observing this, especially since this is what the press and television insist that we look at, and nothing more.

  Howard Zinn

  War, School, Past

  Howard Zinn (2015). “A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present”, p.687, Routledge

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• I must speak the truth, even at the risk of being ostracized by my fellow scribblers. In fact, anticipating their rage, I have already applied for a place in the Canada Council's witness-protection program. This because, much as it pains me to turn on my kind, I fear the time has come to admit that far too many celebrated writers were outrageous liars, philanderers, drunks, druggies, unsuitable babysitters, plagiarists, psychopaths, parasites, cowards, indifferent dads or moms and bad credit risks.

  Mordecai Richler

  Mom, Pain, Dad

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• Thus when we fondly flatter our desires, Our best conceits do prove the greatest liars.

  Michael Drayton

  Desire, Conceit, Prove

  'The Barrons' Wars' (1603) canto 6, st. 94

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• Those that say they despise riches are saints or liars.

  Austin O'Malley

  Saint, Riches, Wealth

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• Jesus said, "I am the way to heaven." I'm betting that he's not a liar. I'm betting that he told the truth.

  Rick Warren

  Jesus, Heaven, Way

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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