Adrienne Rich Quotes

We do not always remember the things that do no credit to us. We justify them, cover them in bright lies or with the thick dust of forgetfulness.

Lying is done with words and also with silence.

Liars are always most disposed to swear.

... the most notorious liar in the country.

… he knew the lie of silence to be as evil as the lie of speech.

Liars ought to have good memories.

Have you weaned yourself of your off-putting proclivity for not telling the truth/

FIB, n. A lie that has not cut its teeth. An habitual liar's nearest approach to truth: the perigee of his eccentric orbit.

He's the kind of liar who totally forgets what he told you the last time, but he believes every single lie with such conviction that sometimes he can convince you of it.

He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.

Nothing creates such untruth in you as the wish to please.

Liars often set their own traps.

LIAR, n. One who tells an unpleasant truth.

When a liar became too skilled at deception, he could lose the ability to discern truth, and could himself be more easily deceived.

Only the liar knows he's lying

We choose to forget aspects of ourselves and then we forget that we've forgotten.

Some liars are so expert they deceive themselves.

The trouble with a liar is he can't remember what he said.

The liar suffers twice: he neither believes nor is believed.

I would start drinking something terrible if I were in a situation where I was surrounded by lies or quiet or secrets. It's just not a real life.

And I, love, am a pathological liar.

Denying the undeniable just makes you sound like a fool as well as a liar.

Every lie has 2 parts - the lie we tell others and the one we tell ourselves to justify it.

'Liar' is just as ugly a word as 'thief,' because it implies the presence of just as ugly a sin in one case as in the other. If a man lies under oath or procures the lie of another under oath, if he perjures himself or suborns perjury, he is guilty under the statute law.

I was a little shocked at the elaborateness of the lie.