The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.
I would be a liar, a hypocrite, or a fool - and I'm not any of those - to say that I don't write for the reader. I do. But for the reader who hears, who really will work at it, going behind what I seem to say. So I write for myself and that reader who will pay the dues.
We didn't want to make it a parody of Don Draper[in Keeping Up With the Joneses] but we did arrive on this idea that there's a side of Jon Hamm that opens up that would like him to stop living as a professional liar.
Liar, lawyer, mirror show me. What’s the difference?
Sometimes Christian apologists say there are only three options to who Jesus was: a liar, a lunatic or the Lord. But there could be a fourth option - legend.
I cannot bear Netanyahu, he's a liar.
I'm a liar. And I can't stop thinking about boys.
So false is faction, and so smooth a liar, As that it never had a side entire.
A liar must have a good memory. -Mendacem oportet esse memorem
For the Christian, every tragedy is ultimately a blessing, or God is a liar.
It seems to me as natural and necessary to keep notes, however brief, of one's reading, as logs of voyages or photographs of one's travels. For memory, in most of us, is a liar with galloping consumption.
And I, love, am a pathological liar.
Women can accept the fact that a man is a rotter, a swindler, a drug taker, a confirmed liar, and a general swine, without batting an eyelash, and without its impairing their affection for the brute in the least. Women are wonderful realists.
A liar lies to others. A fool lies to herself.
A liar is not believed even though he tell the truth.
I am a politician which means I am a liar and a crook. When I am not kissing babies I am stealing their lollypops.
I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It's awful. If I'm on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I'm going, I'm liable to say I'm going to the opera. It's terrible.
I'm going to preach there was no Fall because there was nothing to fall from, and no Redemption because there was no Fall, and no Judgment because there wasn't the first two. Nothing matters but that Jesus was a liar.
So you're always honest," I said. "Aren't you?" "No," I told him. "I'm not. " "Well, that's good to know, I guess. " "I'm not saying I'm a liar," I told him. He raised his eyebrows. "That's not how I meant it, anyways. " "How'd you mean it, then?" "I just. . . I don't always say what I feel. " "Why not?" "Because the truth sometimes hurts," I said. "Yeah," he said. "So do lies, though.
Truth is truth, even when told by a liar.