Thanks from keeping me from being a liar," said Nikolai. "What?" "About your having diarrhea. " "For you I'd get dysentery. " "Now that's friendship.
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.
The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
I am such a bad liar. I would like to lie, though.
I do believe in hell. Jesus spoke more about hell than heaven - I trust him as the authority, not you, me or anybody else. If hell is not real, then Jesus was a liar and God has a lot of explaining to do on His justice and things like that.
Do not mistake probability for truth, for it is a notorious liar.
A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.
Why do I have to keep proving to people that I am not a liar?!
When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say.
I am what I am and I'm a horrible liar. I can't do it. I'm just very candid.
Everyone's a liar. Everyone I've ever known.
A good liar must have a good memory.
There never was a liar that had not a spot in him where he could not help admiring truth.
I want to go to college for literature. I want to be a writer. I mean, I love what I do, but its not all I want to do-be a professional liar for the rest of my life.
Once upon a time I was such a good liar; I could talk the fish right into my mouths.
A liar must have a good memory. -Mendacem oportet esse memorem
The trouble with a liar is he can't remember what he said.
The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.
A liar ought to have a good memory.
A thief is a man in need. A liar is a man in fear.