Philip Pullman Quotes

… the most transparent liar I have ever met

A good liar must have a good memory.

For me, the facts in anything are always secondary. You don't lie convincingly with the truth. You lie convincingly with being a good liar.

Politicians are better liars than writers.

It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory.

If you have the ability to convince somebody of something that you don't necessarily think is the case, it's a valuable asset. Not that I'm, like, a pathological liar, but we spend most of the day not fully being honest, you know?

As someone who specializes in deception, I'll tell you this much: When someone insistently implores, 'Believe me,' don't. Pleading 'believe me' or 'trust me' - insisting to people that you are telling the truth - is a tell-tale sign that you probably aren't.

Someone who lies and someone who tells the truth are playing on opposite sides, so to speak, in the same game. Each responds to the facts as he understands them, although the response of the one is guided by the authority of the truth, while the response of the other defies that authority and refuses to meet its demands. The bullshitter ignores these demands altogether. He does not reject the authority of the truth, as the liar does, and oppose himself to it. He pays no attention to it at all. By virtue of this, bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are.

A good liar must have a good memory. Kissinger is a stupendous liar with a remarkable memory.

A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it. The worst lies are those whose blade is false, but whose handle is true.

Lies are usually attempts to make everything simpler - for the liar - than it really is, or ought to be.

A liar must have a good memory. -Mendacem oportet esse memorem

I was one of the most brilliant liars as a child.

No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

A liar is always lavish of oaths.

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.

Anybody who says they are a good liar obviously is not, because any legitimately savvy liar would always insist they're honest about everything.

The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.

People lie, and they always are very very creative in finding new ways to lie.

Too many people looked to me in the eye and did not tell me the truth.

If you're lying, you're lying.

It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.

Every word she writes is a lie, including and and the.