Liar Quotes
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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
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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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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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Nostalgia is a seductive liar.
George Ball
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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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And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
William Faulkner
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Like I've said before, so many times before, I'm not a good person, I'm not a hero. I'm a criminal, a liar, a cheat, a killer. It was them or me and I wanted to live.
Alexander Gordon Smith
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I was a violent, bipolar, compulsive liar. I was a real American.
Ben Lerner
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You can best reward a liar by believing nothing of what he says.
Aristippus
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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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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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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