Liar Quotes - page 10

Do you know what 'meteorologist' means in English? It means liar. (Lewis Black)
I think anybody who bets on horses and says they win is probably a liar. View quote
Clive Owen
It is vital that there is a narrator figure whom people believe. That's why I never do commercials. If I started saying that margarine was the same as motherhood, people would think I was a liar. View quote
David Attenborough
One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. View quote
Henry Miller
Jonny goes on and on about this. Anybody who claims they write for *themselves is a liar. Everyone has an audience in mind. The only reason any artist would carry on is in the faith that one day somebody would see or hear their work. View quote
Thom Yorke
Being a practiced liar doesn't mean you have a powerful imagination. Many good liars have no imagination at all. View quote
Philip Pullman
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. View quote
Philip Pullman
IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
LIAR, n. One who tells an unpleasant truth. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
LIAR, n. A lawyer with a roving commission. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Of Clemenceau he spoke in kindly terms. But when the name of Poincaré was mentioned, all the bitterness of his nature burst into a sentence of concentrated hatred. "He is a cheat and a liar," he exclaimed. He repeated the phrase with fierce emphasis. Poincaré disliked and distrusted him and the detestation was mutual. (Raymond Poincaré)
A liar is a liar and lives on the lies he tells and dies in a life of lies. View quote
Carl Sandburg
I would be a liar, a hypocrite, or a fool - and I'm not any of those - to say that I don't write for the reader. I do. But for the reader who hears, who really will work at it, going behind what I seem to say. So I write for myself and that reader who will pay the dues. View quote
Maya Angelou
Tira Whatever you're thinkin' you're wrong. I only like him like a brother. You ain't got nothin' to worry about.... Say listen you. A better dame than you once called me a liar and they had to sew her up in twelve different places. You're lucky I'm a little more refined than I used to be. And if you was as much a lady as I am, you'd get out of here before I get real sore. Alicia You haven't a streak of decency in you. Tira I don't show my good points to strangers. I'll trouble you to scram. View quote
Mae West
Truth is a well-known pathological liar. It invariably turns out to be Fiction wearing a fancy frock. Self-proclaimed Fiction, on the other hand, is entirely honest. You can tell this, because it comes right out and says, "I'm a Liar," right there on the dust jacket. View quote
Alan Moore
Truth is a well-known pathological liar. It invariably turns out to be Fiction wearing a fancy frock. Self-proclaimed Fiction, on the other hand, is entirely honest. View quote
Alan Moore
You're such a liar. View quote
Orson Scott Card
I have an oscillating fan at my house. It goes back and forth. It looks like the fan is saying "no." So I like to ask it questions that a fan would say "no" to! Do you keep my hair in place? Do you keep my documents in order? Do you have 3 settings? LIAR! My fan lied to me. Now I will pull the pin up. Now you're not saying ANYTHING! View quote
Mitch Hedberg
There is no liar like the one who lies to himself. He has a fool indeed for an audience. View quote
Jane Yolen
The day Dick Cheney is going to run for president, I'll kill myself. All we need is another liar... I think he'd like to run, but it would be a sad day for the country if he does. View quote
Helen Thomas
You're a terrible liar, boy,” Rand called after us. "Is he right?” I asked quietly, once we'd put some distance between the guest cabin and us. "That I'm a terrible liar? No. I'm a fantastic liar. (Richelle Mead)
The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure. He is the very basis of civilized society. View quote
Oscar Wilde
The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilised being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company. View quote
Oscar Wilde
As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognise the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in neither case will the casual inspiration of the moment suffice. Here, as elsewhere, practice must precede perfection. View quote
Oscar Wilde
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. View quote
Jesse Jackson