Liar Quotes
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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 -
An experienced, industrious, ambitious, and often quite picturesque liar.
Mark Twain
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You have nice manners for a thief and a liar," said the dragon.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
I'm going to preach there was no Fall because there was nothing to fall from, and no Redemption because there was no Fall, and no Judgment because there wasn't the first two. Nothing matters but that Jesus was a liar.
Flannery O'Connor -
The cliché, God hates the sin but love the sinner, is false on the face of it and should be abandoned. Fourteen times in the first fifty Psalms alone, we are told that God hates the sinner, His wrath is on the liar, and so forth. In the Bible, the wrath of God rests both on the sin (Romans 1:18ff) and on the sinner (John 3:36).
D. A. Carson -
Even a liar tells a hundred truths to one lie; he has to, to make the lie good for anything.
Henry Ward Beecher -
You're the liar" - Mimi Force
Melissa de la Cruz -
Yes, one uses what one knows, but autobiography means something else. I should never be able to write a real autobiography; I always end by falsifying and fictionalizing—I’m a liar, in fact. That means I’m a novelist, after all. I write about what I know.
Alberto Moravia
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You can best reward a liar by believing nothing of what he says.
Aristippus -
And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
William Faulkner -
I think anybody who bets on horses and says they win is probably a liar.
Clive Owen -
I was a violent, bipolar, compulsive liar. I was a real American.
Ben Lerner -
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 -
I'm see-through. And I'm the worst liar of all time.
Jessica Simpson
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God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.
Ellet J. Waggoner -
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 -
When it comes to love, everyone is a liar.
Brady Udall -
I'd rather not have anything than be a liar.
Alicia Keys -
Anybody who tells you they're not scared when starting a new book project is a very good liar.
Uzodinma Iweala -
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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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 -
How wonderful to know someone who was bad and dishonorable and a cheat and a liar, when all the world was filled with people who would not lie to save their souls and who would rather starve than do a dishonorable deed!
Margaret Mitchell -
Whoever said that childhood is the happiest time of your life is a liar, or a fool.
Carlo D'Este -
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