Liar

Liar

To lie is to deliver a false statement to another person which the speaking person knows is not the whole truth, intentionally.

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Famous quotes containing the word liar:

    “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. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.”
    —Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)

    “The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.”
    —Samuel Butler (1835–1902)

    “A lie is real; it aims at success. A liar is a realist.”
    —Christina Stead (1902–1983)