Patrick Marber Quotes

We're all liars when it serves our purpose.

If falsehood, like truth, had but one face, we would be more on equal terms. For we would consider the contrary of what the liar said to be certain. But the opposite of truth has a hundred thousand faces and an infinite field.

Truth is no man's slave - but lies - what magnificent servants they make.

Gossip lies nine times and tells a half truth the tenth.

I lie a lot - it's really useful.

Lies are infinite in number, and the truth so small and singular.

The chance that any given sentence is a lie, rather than a truth, I think, is fairly great. An intentional lie, a self-deception, a misconception - there are lots of categories of untruth, not one grab bag. And hotographs can reveal something to us, and they can also conceal things.

Truth is often the favorite tool of those who deceive.

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.

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

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

Some people will lie to you because they mean to. Others will do it to tell you what you want to hear.

A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie.

Every politician, in order to be a politician, has to be adept at the art of one and one thing only, and that is lying.

The lie, of course, is more interesting.

The little bit of truth contained in many a lie is what makes them so terrible.

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.

The most offensive is not their lying - one can always forgive lying - lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to truth - what is offensive is that they lie and worship their own lying.

Lies, lies are the place where darkness grows.

Any statement beginning with the words 'In truth' is almost always a lie.

Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.

You take the lies out of him, and he'll shrink to the size of your hat; you take the malice out of him, and he'll disappear.

The perjurer's mother told white lies.

LIAR, n. One who tells an unpleasant truth.