Liars The Quotes

Have you forgotten what we are to say to ourselves every morning? 'Today I shall meet cruel men, cowards and liars, the envious and the drunken. They will be like that because they do not know what is good from what is bad. This is an evil which has fallen upon them not upon me. They are to be pitied, not... ~ C.S. Lewis

Mirror

I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions.
Whatever I see I swallow immediately
Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike.
I am not cruel, only truthful-
The eye of the little god, four cornered.
Most of the time I meditate on the opposite wall.
It is pink, with speckles. I have looked at it so long
I think it is a part of my heart. But it flickers.
Faces and darkness separate us over and over.
Now I am a lake. A woman bends over me,
Searching my reaches for what she really is.
Then she turns to those liars, the candles or the moon.
I see her back, and reflect it faithfully.
She rewards me with tears and an agitation of hands.
I am important to her. She comes and goes.
Each morning it is her face that replaces the darkness.
In me she has drowned a young girl, and in me an old woman
Rises toward her day after day, like a terrible fish.

--written 1960 ~ Sylvia Plath

The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth. ~ H.L. Mencken

Since Caesar, we know his historians are liars. The good writers get read. Bad history doesn't get read. ~ Peter Greenaway

My sister had blown out the candle in our breath.That meant our wishes were definitely going to come true ~ Sara Shepard

Our rational, grown-up selves are good liars. The five-year-old tyrants within us are the ones who can tell it like it is. ~ Brene Brown

History is written by the victorious, the liars, the strongest, the most determined. ~ Kate Mosse

Because that's the thing about Scooby-Doo: the bad guys in every episode aren't monsters, they're liars... The very first rule of Scooby-Doo, the single premise that sits at the heart of their adventures, is that the world is full of grown-ups who lie to kids, and that it's up to those kids to figure out what those lies are and call them on it, even if there are other adults who believe those lies with every fiber of their being. ~ Chris Sims

And always, everywhere, there would be the yelling or quietly authoritative hypnotists; and in the train of the ruling suggestion givers, always everywhere, the tribes of buffoons and hucksters, the professional liars, the purveyors of entertaining irrelevances. Conditioned from the cradle, unceasingly distracted, mesmerized systematically, their uniformed victims would go on obediently marching and countermarching, go on, always and everywhere, killing and dying with the perfect docility of trained poodles. And yet in spite of the entirely justified refusal to take yes for an answer, the fact remained and would remain always, remain everywhere - the fact that there was this capacity even in a paranoiac for intelligence, even in a devil worshipper for love; the fact that the ground of all being could be totally manifest in a flowering shrub, a human face; the fact that there was a light and that this light was also compassion ~ Aldous Huxley

We lie and we are lied to, and the best liars - the ones who don't even see it as lying - get the business cards and the corner offices and the fancy clothes some other liar tricked them into thinking they needed. At least it used to bother people that the liars and
frauds and phonies rose to the top, the citizens expressed concern that shit floated. Today we put the shit on magazine covers, laud its buoyancy, and anxiously wait to buy the shit's best-selling business book about how you can float your shit, too. ~ Shalom Auslander

Writers are the biggest liars, only the best. ~ Marty Rubin

C++ is a language strongly optimized for liars and people who go by guesswork and ignorance. ~ Erik Naggum

Ronan Lynch lived with every sort of secret. ~ Maggie Stiefvater

You punish liars? In my world, we elect them to public office. ~ Bryan Davis

Junkies are liars. They have to be professionally. ~ Jerry Stahl

You must remember garden catalogues are as big liars as house-agents. ~ Rumer Godden

Many older physicians had gone to their graves calling Pasteur a liar, a fool, or worse
and without examining evidence which their "common sense" told them was impossible. ~ Robert A. Heinlein

PRETTY LITTLE LIARS works as a metaphor for our central human experience: we have no way to objectively know about anything, no way to move forward with certainty, and yet move forward we must. We stumble through life, trying to find our own way, not knowing whom to listen to, whom to trust, whom to suspect, what to believe. But in that process we discover our most authentic selves. ~ Norman Buckley

Thieves and liars kill indirectly, unintentionally, and with no other weapon than their tongues and malice. ~ A.E.H. Veenman

And I, love, am a pathological liar. ~ Sylvia Plath

Aren't liars just storytellers who hate themselves? ~ Mimi Pond

Love make us a liar. Jace Wayland/Herondale, City of Ashes ~ Cassandra Clare

There were a lot of answers I might've given, from "I knew that" to "LIAR!" to "Yeah right, and I'm Zeus." - Percy, after Quintus says that he is Daedalus ~ Rick Riordan

Thus Pyrrhonism is not a sect of people who are persuaded of what they say, but it is a sect of liars. ~ Antoine Arnauld

So I left words of forgiveness to God and liars and I enjoyed my hatred. ~ Jennifer Mardoll

People don't lie to contaminate truth. They lie to pollute their hearts. ~ Munia Khan

You can trust bad liars. ~ Toba Beta

You can best reward a liar by believing nothing of what he says. ~ Aristippus

Lies are like cockroaches, for every one you discover there are many more that are hidden. ~ Gary Hopkins

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

With old liars who have been acting all their lives there are moments when they enter so completely into their part that they tremble or shed tears in earnest, although at that very moment, or a second later, they are able to whisper to themselves, You know you are lying, you shameless old sinner! You're acting now, in spite of your 'holy' wrath. ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

It isn't a bit of use my pretending I'm not crying, because I am ... Pause to mop up. Better now.
Perhaps it would really be rather dull to be married and settled for life. Liar! It would be heaven. ~ Dodie Smith

Never trust a pretty girl with an ugly secret. ~ Sara Shepard

When money enters in - then, for a price, I become a liar - and a good one I can be whether with pencil or subtle lighting or viewpoint. I hate it all, but so do I support not only my family, but my own work. ~ Edward Weston

Pretty faces will someday destroy tears ~ Arif Naseem

When public men indulge themselves in abuse, when they deny others a fair trial, when they resort to innuendo and insinuation, to libel, scandal, and suspicion, then our democratic society is outraged, and democracy is baffled. ~ J. William Fulbright

A liar ought to have a good memory. ~ Quintilian

I think people are a mixture of everything. I like desperate characters because they do things that most of us normally wouldn't do. If a character is a scoundrel or a liar you think you know them, but then I can bring some emotion to them and they become much fuller than you ever imagined. So what I try to do is have a story where you don't quite know where it's going, and characters who you don't quite know where they're going. ~ Richard Shepard

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

One man affirms that he has rode post a hundred miles in six hours; probably it is a lie; but supposing it to be true, what then? Why, he is a very good post-boy; that is all. Another asserts, and probably not without oaths, that he has drunk six or eight bottles of wine at a sitting; out of charity I will believe him a liar; for if I do not, I must think him a beast. ~ Lord Chesterfield

Be a little kinder than you have to." ========== We Were Liars (Lockhart, E.) ~ Anonymous