Liar Quotes - page 5

In either case the orator should bear clearly in mind throughout his whole speech what the fiction is to which he has committed himself, since we are apt to forget our falsehoods, and there is no doubt about the truth of the proverb that a liar should have a good memory. (Quintilian)
If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name. View quote
A. A. Milne
I am an estranged man, said the liar: estranged from myself, from my family, my fellow man, my country, my world, my time, and my culture. I am not estranged from God, although I am a disbeliever in everything about God excepting God indefinable, inaccessible, inside all and careless of all. View quote
William Saroyan
Make not Christ a liar in distrusting His promise. View quote
Samuel Rutherford
In the course of my twenty years career as an assailant of special privilege, I have attacked pretty nearly every important interest in America. The statements I have made, if false, would have been enough to deprive me of a thousand times all the property I ever owned, and to have sent me to prison for a thousand times a normal man's life. I have been called a liar on many occasions, needless to say; but never once in all these twenty years has one of my enemies ventured to bring me into a court of law, and to submit the issue between us to a jury of American citizens. View quote
Upton Sinclair
You're such a liar.” "But I'm a beautiful liar, don't you think?” She flashed her best smile at her friend. "I don't understand what men see in women anyway,” her friend answered. "Hexes or no hexes, as long as a woman has her clothes on a man can't see what he's interested in anyhow. View quote
Orson Scott Card
A liar sees lies,” said Taleswapper. "Even when they aren't there. Just as a hypocrite sees hypocrites whenever he runs across good people. Can't stand to think that anyone might really be what you only pretend to be. View quote
Orson Scott Card
Ted Cruz lies. He's a liar. And that's why nobody likes him, that's why his Senate people won't endorse him. That's why he stands on the middle of the Senate floor and can't make a deal with anybody. He looks like a jerk. He's standing all by himself. And you know, there's something to say about having a little bit of ability to get other people to do things. You can't be a lone wolf and stand there. That's sort of what we have right now as a president. View quote
Donald Trump
You will see that the only liar in the Midi, if there is one, is the sun; everything that he touches he exaggerates. View quote
Alphonse Daudet
Two birds on a wire One tries to fly away And the other watches him close from that wire He says he wants to as well But he is a liar. View quote
Regina Spektor
Love makes you a liar. (Cassandra Clare)
I prefer to think that I'm liar in a way that's uniquely my own. View quote
Cassandra Clare
You lie; you always were a liar, and you always will be a liar. View quote
H. Rider Haggard
A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar. View quote
Anita Brookner
The miserly one is never restful; the envious is never pleased; the grumbler is never loyal; the liar has no conscience. View quote
Ali al-Rida
Americans of all persuasions are coming to the sad realization that our First Lady – a woman of undoubted talents who was a role model for many of her generation – is a congenital liar. View quote
William Safire
This is me apologizing. I am a fool, a bird-brain, a liar and a horse-thief. I wouldn't touch a superlative again with an umbrella. View quote
Dorothy Parker
Of course, the liar often imagines that he does no harm as long as his lies go undetected. View quote
Sam Harris
A good liar knows that the most efficient lie is always a truth that has had a key piece removed from it. View quote
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Whoever said that childhood is the happiest time of your life is a liar, or a fool. View quote
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Only those who have never known fear are allowed to think less of others for being afraid. Frankly, I think anyone who has never been afraid of anything in their entire life is either a liar or lacks imagination. (Laurell K. Hamilton)
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. View quote
Laurell K. Hamilton
There are still a few erect human beings in the socalled world. Proudly and humbly,I say to these human beings: "O my fellow citizens,many an honest man believes a lie. Though you are as honest as the day, fear and hate the liar. Fear and hate him when he should be feared and hated:now. Fear and hate him were he should be feared and hated:in yourselves. "Do not hate and fear the artist in yourselves,my fellow citizens. Honour him and love him. Love him truly- do not try to possess him. Trust him as nobly as you trust tomorrow. "Only the artist in yourselves is more truthful than the night." View quote
E. E. Cummings
Lilia sighed. "Why me?” she said, still shaking. "Why should I have to tell it?” "Because you're the best liar,” Jerichau replied with a tight smile. "You can make it true.”. View quote
Clive Barker
You know that it would be untrue You know that I would be a liar If I was to say to you Girl, we couldn't get much higher. Come on baby, light my fire - Come on baby, light my fire - Try to set the night on fire. View quote
Robby Krieger