Quotes by category:Liars

I usually don't agree with what I say very much. I'm an awful lia... by David Bowie

I usually don't agree with what I say very much. I'm an awful liar.

agree awful liars

Boo, I think I no longer believe in monsters as faces in the floor or feral infants or vampires or whatever. I think at seventeen now I believe the only real monsters might be the type of liar where there's simply no way to tell. The ones who give nothing away.

David Foster Wallace

real liars believe

Poets themselves, tho' liars by profession, always endeavour to give an air of truth to their fictions.

air liars giving

Men are not sent to hell because of being murderers or liars, they are sent to hell because they are unrighteous.

hell liars men

There is a set of harmless liars, frequently to be met with in company, who deal much in the marvellous. Their usual intention is to please and entertain; but as men are most delighted with what they conceive to be the truth, these people mistake the means of pleasing, and incur universal blame.

mistake liars mean

I believe anybody who tells you he is unbiased is a liar. Being human gives you bias, and you can't avoid that. The best you can ever hope to be is fair.

liars giving believe

What is "poker"? A card game where abler liars take money off les... by David Mitchell

What is "poker"? A card game where abler liars take money off less able liars.

games liars cards

I shouldn't have to be a liar to make someone love me. I shouldn't be so afraid of losing someone that I'll do anything to make them stay.

losing-someone losing liars

If you look up "charming" in the dictionary, you'll see that it not only has references to strong attraction, but to spells and magic. Then again, what are liars if not great magicians?

magic strong liars

All of us create our own versions of an event, of our lives, even, not because were liars, necessarily, but because we can only see and understand the truth from our own viewpoint, and a shifting viewpoint at that.

viewpoints events liars

Then again, what are liars if not great magicians? by Deb Caletti

Then again, what are liars if not great magicians?

magician ifs liars

When a liar became too skilled at deception, he could lose the ability to discern truth, and could himself be more easily deceived.

deception liars lying

But Sophie and Howl were holding one another's hand and smiling and smiling, quite unable to stop. "Don't bother me know," said Howl. "I only did it for the money." "Liar!"said Sophie. "I said," Michael said, "that Calcifer's come back!" That did get Howl's attention and Sophie's too.

Diana Wynne Jones

liars attention hands

It is worse for a liar to tell the truth than for a lover of truth to lie.... There is a truth which is of Satan. Its essence is that under the semblance of truth it denies everything that is real. It lives upon hatred of the real world which is created and loved by God.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

real liars lying

There's something evil in me that loves evil and degradation--purity's black backside! That loves honesty with a horrid love; or why have I always gone seeking it at the liar's door?

honesty liars doors

“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 tell me the truth because she had never planned it; her life was a continual accident, and how can you be prepared for that? Everything we can't bear in this world, some day we find in one person, and love it all at once.”

honesty liars men

Perhaps it would really be rather dull to be married and settled... by Dodie Smith

Perhaps it would really be rather dull to be married and settled for life. Liar! It would be heaven.

would-be liars heaven

Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes... by Don Marquis

Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.

lakes liars lying

Beware of feelings, Father. They are the biggest liars in us. The... by Dorothy Salisbury Davis

Beware of feelings, Father. They are the biggest liars in us. They make truth what we want it to be.

Dorothy Salisbury Davis

liars feelings father

I write what I write, say what I say, 'cause I feel what I feel, and if I did it different, it would make me a liar! So I'd rather be an honest person than a good liar.

different liars writing

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