
“There is no liar like the one who lies to himself. He has a fool indeed for an audience.”
Source: Short fiction, Dragonfield and Other Stories (1985), The Bull & the Crowth (p. 122)
Source: The Gate of Worlds (1967), Chapter 9 “To the Western Sea” (p. 162)
“There is no liar like the one who lies to himself. He has a fool indeed for an audience.”
Source: Short fiction, Dragonfield and Other Stories (1985), The Bull & the Crowth (p. 122)
“The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.”
“Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.”
Source: The Collected Works
“A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.”
Mark Twain and I by Opie Read
On his work on Our Secret Weapon, as quoted in "Mystery Story Writer Turns Detective, Finding Axis Lies; Rex Stout, Creator of Nero Wolfe, Using Our Secret Weapon — Truth" by Trudi McCullough in The Milwaukee Journal (30 September 1942) http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1499&dat=19420930&id=tO4ZAAAAIBAJ&sjid=6SIEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3279,6165010
“Who love my man, I'm a liar if I say I don't
But I'll quit my man, I'm a liar if I say I wont.”
Billie's Blues
“All men are liars, said Roberta Muldoon, who knew this was true because she had once been a man.”
Source: The World According to Garp
“Maggie, we're through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.”
Source: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof