"Liar" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... mysterious circumstance that I own puzzles me. Most persons accused of murder could, if they chose, make a clean breast, and tell you the whole matter. But this is not my case. I know shoes from boots, and I know Kate Gaunt from a liar and a murderess. But, when all is said, this is still a dark, mysterious business, and there are things in it I can only deal with as you do, gentlemen, by bringing my wits to bear upon them in ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 • Various
... papa told me you did tell him. Therefore father is a liar. I don't like being the daughter of a liar. ...
— The Title - A Comedy in Three Acts • Arnold Bennett
... was dead, he wouldn't do any mean thing. She should have half of whatever he got—"go whacks" just the same. But as for love, it never entered his honest brain, and had any one told him that Nell Liardet was fond of him, he would have called him a liar and "plugged" ...
— The Ebbing Of The Tide - South Sea Stories - 1896 • Louis Becke
... every age, All are liars, saith the sage. Had he writ but of the low, One could hardly think it so; But that human mortals, all, Lie like serpents, great and small, Had another certified it, I, for one, should have denied it. He who lies in Aesop's way, Or like Homer, minstrel gray, Is no liar, sooth to say. Charms that bind us like a dream, Offspring of their happy art, Cloak'd in fiction, more than seem Truth to offer to the heart. Both have left us works which I Think unworthy e'er to die. Liar call not ...
— The Fables of La Fontaine - A New Edition, With Notes • Jean de La Fontaine
... "Liar—devil—coward!" Olof's rage broke loose. A step forward, almost a spring, and with the strength of fury he seized the man by his coat with both hands and lifted ...
— The Song Of The Blood-Red Flower • Johannes Linnankoski
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