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"Plato, by the way, wanted to banish all poets from his proposed Utopia because they were liars. The truth was that Plato knew philosophers couldn't compete successfully with poets."
"The liar suffers twice: he neither believes nor is believed."
"A liar is a liar and lives on the lies he tells and dies in a life of lies."
"I cannot accept any concept of God based on the fear of life or the fear of death, or blind faith. I cannot prove to you that there is no personal God, but if I were to speak of him I would be a liar."
"Let man be true and every god a liar."
"Scott Peterson was a pathological liar to me - nothing he said was the truth."
"Afterthought makes the first resolve a liar."
"You can lock up from a thief, but you can't from a liar."
"Success has always been the greatest liar - and the "work" itself is a success; the great statesman, the conqueror, the discoverer is disguised by his creations, often beyond recognition; the "work," whether of the artist or the philosopher, invents the man who has created it, who is supposed to have create it; "great men," as they are venerated, are subsequent pieces of wretched minor fiction"
"Leaders must not be naive. I used to say, "Liars shouldn't lie." What a sad waste of words that is! I found out liars are supposed to lie. That's why we call them liars - they lie! What else would you expect them to do?"
"Liars are the cause of all the sins and crimes in the world."
"I'm very sad about Mitch McConnell probably getting to be Senate majority leader, if only for two years. To me, he is just everything that is wrong with the world, a bullying obstructionist blowhard liar (not to put too fine a point on it)."
"As the greatest liar tells more truths than falsehoods, so may it be said of the worst man, that he does more good than evil."
"Christ was either liar, lunatic, or Lord!"
"And I, love, am a pathological liar."
"The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company."
"When a man you like switches from what he said a year ago, or 4 years ago, he is a broad-minded person who has courage enough to change his mind with changing conditions. When a man you don't like does it, he is a liar who has broken his promises."
"A mine is a hole in the ground with a liar on top."
"I think the difference between a lie and a story is that a story utilizes the trappings and appearance of truth for the interest of the listener as well as of the teller. A story has in it neither gain nor loss. But a lie is a device for profit or escape. I suppose if that definition is strictly held to, then a writer of stories is a liar - if he is financially fortunate."
"Who ever told you there is no such thing in the world as real, true, everlasting love? May the liar have his despicable tongue cut out!"
