Liar Quotes
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I knew a girl, her name was Truth. She was a terrible liar.
Ben Harper
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Anybody who claims to read the entire paper every day is either the world's fastest reader or the world's biggest liar.
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger
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The past is part of the present, is part of the future, it's all part of being an artist. You cannot be something that you're not when you're not that thing anymore, and if you do that then you're a liar.
Courtney Love
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I was a violent, bipolar, compulsive liar. I was a real American.
Ben Lerner
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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
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Even when I think of writing fiction, it's being kind of a liar, a storyteller, a weaver, and there's that sense of how much of this is your life. The story is a way you unravel your life from behind a mask.
Edwidge Danticat
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I'm an actor, but I am an awful liar.
Chris Pine
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Nostalgia is a seductive liar.
George Ball
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Even a liar tells a hundred truths to one lie; he has to, to make the lie good for anything.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Denying the undeniable just makes you sound like a fool as well as a liar.
Ally Carter
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Do you believe that the actor on the stage is really a villain? Let me ask you something else. If he isn't a villain, then is he a liar?
Steven Millhauser
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Honesty is of God and dishonesty of the devil; the devil was a liar from the beginning.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
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Hey, I fool the camera. I'm a liar, a magician.
Janice Dickinson
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You have nice manners for a thief and a liar," said the dragon.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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Anybody who tells you they're not scared when starting a new book project is a very good liar.
Uzodinma Iweala
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I'd rather not have anything than be a liar.
Alicia Keys
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You can best reward a liar by believing nothing of what he says.
Aristippus
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I did a play in Bolton - 'Billy Liar.' I turned it down at first but then thought, 'What the hell else can I do? I'm no good at anything else.'
Anne Reid
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By definition, as a Prime Minister I cannot be a liar.
Silvio Berlusconi
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The fact about himself that the liar hides is that he is attempting to lead us away from a correct apprehension of reality; we are not to know that he wants us to believe something he supposes to be false. The fact about himself that the bullshitter hides, on the other hand, is that the truth-values of his statements are of no central interest to him . . . He does not care whether the things he says describe reality correctly. He just picks them out, or makes them up, to suit his purpose.
Harry Frankfurt
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Contrary to all those times you've heard a writer confess at a reading that he writes fiction because he is a pathological liar, fiction writing is all about telling the truth.
Paul Harding
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Whoever said that childhood is the happiest time of your life is a liar, or a fool.
Carlo D'Este
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I think anybody who bets on horses and says they win is probably a liar.
Clive Owen
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Then what are you like, Annabel?" he shot back. "A liar, like you told me that first day? Come on. That was the biggest lie of all.
Sarah Dessen