liar quotes

“No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.”

— Lin Yutang

“A liar should have a good memory.”

— Quintilian

“Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.”

— Mark Twain

“The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.”

— Stephen King

“If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.”

— Jane Austen

“Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times.”

— Sigmund Freud

“Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. ”

— Abraham Lincoln

“It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement. ”

— Horace

“Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.”

— Honore de Balzac

“The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.”

— Aldous Huxley

“It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own. ”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth. ”

— Aesop

“Familiarity breeds contempt. ”

— Aesop

“Men should pledge themselves to nothing; for reflection makes a liar of their resolution.”

— Sophocles

“As an actor and as a person you come together with being in familiar territory although that has not been my whole life. That's been a part of it. I think a lot of people associate me with the west because of Sundance.”

— Robert Redford

“The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits.”

— John Locke

“I live and love in God's peculiar light.”

— Michelangelo

“It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.”

— Anais Nin

“One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life.”

— Henry Miller

“There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.”

— Henry Miller

“Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.”

— Blaise Pascal

“I think there's something peculiar about me that I haven't died. It doesn't make sense but I refuse to die.”

— Judy Garland

“The way to kill a man or a nation is to cut off his dreams, the way the whites are taking care of the Indians: killing their dreams, their magic, their familiar spirits.”

— William Seward Burroughs

“Fidelity - a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.”

— Ambrose Bierce

“Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.”

— Ambrose Bierce

“A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.”

— Mark Twain

“No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.”

— Abraham Lincoln

liar quotes

“The American people are tired of liars and people who pretend to be something they're not. ”

“All pitchers are liars or crybabies.”

“No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.”

“A liar should have a good memory.”

“Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.”

“The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.”

“Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times.”

“Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. ”

“It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement. ”

“Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.”

“The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.”

“It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own. ”

“A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth. ”

“Familiarity breeds contempt. ”

“Men should pledge themselves to nothing; for reflection makes a liar of their resolution.”

“As an actor and as a person you come together with being in familiar territory although that has not been my whole life. That's been a part of it. I think a lot of people associate me with the west because of Sundance.”

“The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.”

“I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits.”

“I live and love in God's peculiar light.”

“It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.”

“One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life.”

“There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.”

“Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.”

“I think there's something peculiar about me that I haven't died. It doesn't make sense but I refuse to die.”

“The way to kill a man or a nation is to cut off his dreams, the way the whites are taking care of the Indians: killing their dreams, their magic, their familiar spirits.”

“Fidelity - a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.”

“Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.”

“A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.”

“No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.”