liar quotes

“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. ”

“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.”

— 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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

— Abraham Lincoln

“The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite”

— Tennessee Williams

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