“You lie; you always were a liar, and you always will be a liar.”
H. Rider Haggard (1856–1925) English writer of adventure novels
Dawn (1884), CHAPTER I
“Celebrities are invariably celebrity-mad, just as liars always believe liars.”
Source: 1990s, Palimpsest : A Memoir (1995), Ch. 18: To Do Well What Should Not Be Done at All, p. 311
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Un menteur est toujours prodigue de serments.
Clariste, act III, scene v.
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“Liars are always most disposed to swear.”
A giurar presti i mentitor son sempre.
Virginia, II, 3; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 485.
Pierre Stephen Robert Payne (1911–1983) British lecturer, novelist, historian, poet and biographer
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“Success has always been a great liar”
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
“I don't think he's a liar, just a fantasist. He says whatever he likes, and then he believes it.”
Norman Tebbit (1931) English politician
On Tony Blair
“The liar wants to be believed, but lying undermines the foundation for credibility.”
Randal Marlin (1938) Canadian academic
Source: Propaganda & The Ethics Of Persuasion (2002), Chapter Four, Ethics And Propaganda, p. 149
