Liars Quotes
672 quotes by 521 authors
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Maggie, we're through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
— Tennessee Williams
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This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune,--often the surfeit of our own behavior,--we make guilty of our…
— William Shakespeare
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There is no such thing as a good writer and a bad liar.
— Amy Bloom
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His whole body was completely still, except the wings, which were still fluttering a little, like when someone dies. That's when he finally understood that…
— Etgar Keret
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But if you didn't have more urgent things to do after supper [in boot camp], you could write a letter, loaf, gossip, discuss the myriad…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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Women can accept the fact that a man is a rotter, a swindler, a drug taker, a confirmed liar, and a general swine, without batting…
— Agatha Christie
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People who write fiction, if they had not taken it up, might have become very successful liars.
— Ernest Hemingway
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God,' she cried, 'what is love? Man seeking his own head? The human head, so rented by misery that even the teeth weigh! She couldn't…
— Djuna Barnes
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Dear God," she prayed, "let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. Let me be gay; let me be sad. Let…
— Betty Smith
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...that was Bud Caldwell's Rules and Things to Have a Funner LIfe and Make a Better Liar Out of Yourself Number 83...If a Adult Tells…
— Christopher Paul Curtis
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Be bad, but at least don't be a liar, a deceiver!
— Leo Tolstoy
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If heaven is tolerant and writers are allowed (bunch of liars though they are), I wonder if they gather for coffee to ponder the prose…
— Lori Lansens
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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…
— Alan Moore
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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…
— Sarah Dessen
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Is it true that you shouted at Professor Umbridge?" "Yes." "You called her a liar?" "Yes." "You told her He Who Must Not Be Named…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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So you're always honest," I said. "Aren't you?" "No," I told him. "I'm not." "Well, that's good to know, I guess." "I'm not saying I'm…
— Sarah Dessen
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It's a wise person, I guess, who knows he's dumb, and an honest person who knows he's a liar. And it's a dumb person, I…
— Joseph Heller
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Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners - your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards - who dishonor the vices…
— Thornton Wilder
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If any man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor, he is a liar. If any man tells you he trusts America, yet fears…
— Abraham Lincoln
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All of us have to be prevaricators, hypocrites, and liars every day of our lives; otherwise the social structure would fall into pieces the first…
— O. Henry
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521 authors contributed a total of 672 Liars Quotes, led by these top contributors: