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A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood. -- William Shenstone
He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers. -- Charles Peguy
Nature, reason, and Christianity recognize no other. Pride may say Nay; but Pride was always a liar, and a great hater of the truth. -- Susanna Moodie
People assume actors are born liars, but I'd argue the actor's job is to tell the truth. And I've realised I'm not a good liar. -- Cate Blanchett
The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. -- Hannah Arendt
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. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
I have been known for some time as a person who speaks the truth and speaks it strongly. I have always called a liar a liar and a hypocrite a hypocrite. -- Cindy Sheehan
All of us create our own versions of an event, of our lives, even, not because we're liars, necessarily, but because we can only see and understand the truth from our own viewpoint, and a shifting viewpoint at that. -- Deb Caletti
I think 80 percent of the population are really great, caring people who will help you and tell you the truth. That's just the way it is. And I think 20 percent of the population are crooks and liars. It's just a fact. -- Tom Hanks
The three-year-old who lies about taking a cookie isn't really a liar after all. He simply can't control his impulses. He then convinces himself of a new truth and, eager for your approval, reports the version that he knows will make you happy. -- Cathy Rindner Tempelsman
It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement. -- Horace
Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life. -- A. N. Wilson
I know how easy it is for one to stay well within moral, ethical, and legal bounds through the skillful use of words - and to thereby spin, sidestep, circumvent, or bend a truth completely out of shape. To that extent, we are all liars on numerous occasions. -- Sidney Poitier
I've studied pathological liars, and anything they say, they believe, and that's one of the reasons they're so convincing, because they have no connection with the truth. It's a dead issue. It's like they're color-blind to the truth. So anything that comes out of their mouths is their reality. -- Jane Velez-Mitchell
Let me get you to understand I don't bully anybody. I stand up for what I believe in and I'm very honest and I always tell the truth. I'm not a liar, I'm not manipulative and I don't stab you in your back because I will stab you in your chest. -- NeNe Leakes
As a pastor and as a dad, I want my son to know I tell the truth. He can read the book. He knows if I exaggerated or if I didn't. My son is forever gonna believe that I'm an honest person or I'm a liar by what I wrote in that book, because he can read. -- Todd Burpo
Liars when they speak the truth are not believed. -- Aristotle
The best liars are those who tell the truth most of the time. -- Brandon Sanderson
The most mischievous liars are those who keep sliding on the verge of truth. -- Augustus William Hare
The sad truth is that most of my husbands turned out to be convincing liars. -- Joan Collins
All liars ... lie to protect themselves, to shield their egos from the raw pain of truth. -- Aminatta Forna
That's the problem with the truth," Darcy said. "Liars and honest men both claim to have it. -- Hugh Howey
Poets themselves, tho' liars by profession, always endeavour to give an air of truth to their fictions... -- David Hume
Beware of feelings, Father. They are the biggest liars in us. They make truth what we want it to be. -- Dorothy Salisbury Davis
They decided that all liars should be whipped. And a man came along and told them the truth. And they hanged him. -- Thomas William Hodgson Crosland
What's the truth? The truth is what people WANT. Liars are basically idealists, liars are saints and prophets. Jesus was a liar. -- Jane Rogers
When I think it's good not to say the truth, I don't say anything. I don't like actors in general, they lie, they are liars, trust me. -- Melanie Laurent
The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth. -- H. L. Mencken
All philosophers can do is to abstain from helping the aggressors and to enjoin social scientists to tell the truth instead of joining the choir of liars and hypocrites. -- Mario Bunge
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. -- Kurt Vonnegut

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