L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Liar's such a strong word. I prefer to think of it as me omitting some of the details" - Alex”
“Liar, lawyer, mirror show me. What’s the difference?”
“LIAR, n. One who tells an unpleasant truth.”
“Liar: A lawyer with a roving commission.”
Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World
“Liars are always most disposed to swear.”
Source: The tragedies of Vittorio Alfieri
“Liars are chameleons that take on any colour.”
Source: Operation Jihadi Bride: The Covert Mission to Rescue Young Women from ISIS
“Liars are highly unlikely to admit their lies, never mind apologize for the hurt they’ve caused. Liars don’t genuinely apologize. Deceit has become their full-out lifestyle. They are centered on themselves with no thoughts of the consequences of their lies. In cowardly style, they tell more lies to try and cover their tracks. They are not good at admitting they actually have shortcomings.”
Source: The Bimbo Has Brains: And Other Freaky Facts
“Liars are the acid that eats at the foundations of public life and democracy.”
Source: Operation Jihadi Bride: The Covert Mission to Rescue Young Women from ISIS
“Liars are the cause of all the sins and crimes in the world.”
“Liars, cheaters and abusers don't easily change.”
“Liars deceive people quickly and people follow them, the truthful people believe them after a long time or after their death.”
“Liars despise the truth and anyone who speaks it. They will fight and attack those who tell the truth in order to protect their lies.”
“Liars don't lie to those who are innocent, they lie to those who know the truth”
“Liars gain a huge advantage over truth-tellers, you know. Truth has been found to be a terrible weakness, an evolutionary catastrophe. The society that coated itself with lies was found to be a better survival machine. The man who told the truth was extraordinarily naive and stupid. Now the expectation is always of being lied to. Nowadays when one man is talking to another, he knows instinctively he is being lied to and his mind automatically overlays that set of lies with a neutralizing set of lies, leaving behind a kind of truth. But what sort of truth is it that arises exclusively from lies?”
Source: The Mistletoe Murders: A Nietzschean Murder Mystery
“Liars make the best promises.”
Source: Golden Son
“Liars need to have good memories.”
“Liars often set their own traps.”
Source: Aesop in the afternoon
“Liars seldom believe anyone else.”
“Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived.”
Source: Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life
“Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.”
“Lib had been working all day at the sewing machine, running up new house-dresses for the womenfolk. When Lib launched into a long seam, she pushed the treadle so fast the whole machine rocked like a boat. The needle ate up the goods like a prairie fire eating up grass. Lib hated sewing and she didn't propose to spend any more of her life than needed to be turning out house-dresses for the female inmates of the Rock County Poor Farm. When she hit a long seam the poor Singer hummed and whined. The seams Lib sewed were saw-toothed, but they were in to stay. She sewed a firm stitch and she put the stitches far from the edge. . .when she held up one of her uneven seams for inspection, she consoled herself by saying, "It'll never be seen on a galloping horse.”
Source: The Witch Diggers
“Libby can hear the whisper of every moment that this room has existed. Feel every breath of every person who has ever sat where she is sitting.”
Source: The Family Upstairs
“Libby's been lecturing me, she claims seawater is the surest antidote for heartbreak. 'It's the salt. Makes up for all the crying.”
Source: Death and Other Holidays
“Libby was advised by the vice president of the United States that Wilson's wife worked at the CIA in the counterproliferation division. Libby understood that the vice president had learned this information from the CIA.”
“Liberace was certainly master and commander of the ivories ~ he is the only pianist I can watch or listen to without suffering a case of 'Stagefright Sympathy Sickness'.”
“Liberace was Elton John and Lady Gaga before they even dreamed of it.”
“Liberal and conservative have lost their meaning in America. I represent the distracted center.”
“Liberal attitudes towards the other are characterized both by respect for otherness, openness to it, and an obsessive fear of harassment. In short, the other is welcomed insofar as its presence is not intrusive, insofar as it is not really the other. Tolerance thus coincides with its opposite. My duty to be tolerant towards the other effectively means that I should not get too close to him or her, not intrude into his space—in short, that I should respect his intolerance towards my over-proximity. This is increasingly emerging as the central human right of advanced capitalist society: the right not to be ‘harassed’, that is, to be kept at a safe distance from others.”
Source: Against Human Rights
“Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.”
“Liberal capitalism is not perfect, but compared to the other 'isms,' it's far superior.”
“Liberal Catholics are the worst enemies of the Church.”
“Liberal child welfare experts decided that child abuse was not evidence of a moral or character flaw in the abusing parent. Instead, like poverty, crime, and homelessness, child abuse came to be viewed as evidence of a societal failure.”
Source: Do-Gooders: How Liberals Hurt Those They Claim to Help and the Rest of Us
“Liberal Christians are distinguished by how much moral and intellectual ground they can concede to the adversaries of Christianity.”
“Liberal comes from the Latin liberalis, which means pertaining to a free man. In politics, to be liberal is to want to extend democracy through change and reform. One can see why that word had to be erased from our political lexicon.”
Source: The Decline and Fall of the American Empire
“Liberal constitutional democracy is supposed to ensure that each citizen is free and equal and protected by basic rights and liberties.”
Source: Collected Papers
“Liberal democracy - as you know, in the old days, we were saying we want socialism with a human face. Today's left effectively offers global capitalism with a human face, more tolerance, more rights and so on. So the question is, is this enough or not? Here I remain a Marxist: I think not.”
“Liberal democracy must finally become the vital element of our society.”
“Liberal Democrats are inexorably opposed to tax cuts, because tax cuts give people more power, and take away from the role of government.”
“Liberal Doctrine: it is not children who misbehave, but parents.”
“Liberal dominance of important areas of America's social and political life has undermined many of the virtues that have sustained this country.”
Source: Do-Gooders: How Liberals Hurt Those They Claim to Help and the Rest of Us
“Liberal economists conceive of societies as black boxes connected by exchange rates; as long as exchange rates are correct, what goes on inside the black box is regarded as not very important.”
“Liberal education develops a sense of right, duty and honor; and more and more in the modern world, large business rests on rectitude and honor as well as on good judgment.”
“Liberal education reminds those members of a mass democracy who have ears to hear, of human greatness.”
Source: Liberalism Ancient and Modern
“Liberal education, which consists in the constant intercourse with the greatest minds, is a training in the highest form of modesty. ... It is at the same time a training in boldness. ... It demands from us the boldness implied in the resolve to regard the accepted views as mere opinions, or to regard the average opinions as extreme opinions which are at least as likely to be wrong as the most strange or least popular opinions”
Source: An Introduction to Political Philosophy: Ten Essays
“Liberal feminists excuse immigrant men of crimes against women because the perpetrators are victims of racism and colonialism.”
Source: Prey: Immigration, Islam, and the Erosion of Women's Rights
“Liberal gardeners are people who feel that, through gardening, we can alleviate our sense of alienation from nature; and that, through good gardening, we can repair some of the damage we have done to our environment. The most extreme liberals believe that there is an original or a natural state in which the environment would be if we hadn't shown up on the scene, and that we have not only the ability but also a moral imperative to help nature return to this state.”
“Liberal hopefulness Regards death as a mere border to an improving picture.”
Source: Collected Poems
“Liberal hostility to the traditional family helped to undermine centuries of accumulated wisdom and experience about what was best for children and adults. Far from benefiting only men, marriage confers enormous advantages on women and children as well - a fact that has been thrown into sharp relief by its breakdown over the past forty years.”
Source: Do-Gooders: How Liberals Hurt Those They Claim to Help and the Rest of Us
“Liberal humanists now seem to dominate the fields of art, journalism, and communication, which are powerful and uniquely able to spread anti-Christian thought.”
Source: A Nation Without a Conscience
“Liberal institutions straightway cease being liberal the moment they are soundly established: Once this is attained, no more grievous and more thorough enemies of freedom exist than liberal institutions.”
Source: Twilight of the Idols with the Antichrist and Ecce Homo