"A lover's a liar, To himself he lies, The truthful are loveless, Like oysters their eyes!"
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"...and wondering where he had read that clever liars give details, but that the cleverest do not."
"A liar goes in fine clothes, a liar goes in rags, a liar is a liar, clothes or no clothes."
"I think my favorite thing is when people send me Instagram photos of people's yearbooks, and one guy will put "Are you calling me a liar?," and his friend will have "I ain't calling you a truther." And those are people's actual yearbook quotes. That's so amazing."
"Falsehood is a perennial spring."
"I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth."
"Do you think... that men have always massacred each other, as they do today? Have they always been liars, cheats, traitors, brigands, weak, flighty, cowardly, envious, gluttonous, drunken, grasping, and vicious, bloody, backbiting, debauched, fanatical, hypocritical, and silly?"
"Lies were lethal, however honourable the intentions of the liar. They deprived people of the opportunity to know the basic facts of their own lives."
"Men should pledge themselves to nothing; for reflection makes a liar of their resolution."
"I'm not smart enough to lie"
"I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life."
"I would be a liar if I said I don't care [about my appearance]; yes, I care. I found it very difficult, when I first became well known, to read criticism about how I look, how messy my hair was, and how generally unkempt I look. The nastiest thing ever written was written by a man, and I do remember that. I wasn't looking for it either, it was just simply in the newspaper I was reading."
"Do you know what I think, Potter?' said Snape, very quietly. "I think that you are a liar and a cheat and that you deserve detention with me every Saturday until the end of term. What do you think, Potter?"
"Conquer a liar with truth."
"Overcome the angry by non-anger; overcome the wicked by goodness; overcome the miser by generosity; overcome the liar by truth."
"A liar is not believed even though he tell the truth."
"Celebrities are invariably celebrity-mad, just as liars always believe liars."
"The trouble with writing a book about yourself is that you can’t fool around. If you write about someone else, you can stretch the truth from here to Finland. If you write about yourself the slightest deviation makes you realize instantly that there may be honor among thieves, but you are just a dirty liar."
"One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life."
"While photographs may not lie, liars may photograph."