Pathological Liar Quotes

#1. 'Pathological liar' is absolutely the toughest individual to deal with as a psychiatrist. Because you can't take anything they say at face value. And you can't, you know, fill in their personality. You don't know what's real and what's not.

Dale Archer

#2. Truth is a well-known pathological liar. It invariably turns out to be Fiction wearing a fancy frock. Self-proclaimed Fiction, on the other hand, is entirely honest. You can tell this, because it comes right out and says, "I'm a Liar," right there on the dust jacket.

Alan Moore

#3. Contrary to all those times you've heard a writer confess at a reading that he writes fiction because he is a pathological liar, fiction writing is all about telling the truth.

Paul Harding

#4. And I, love, am a pathological liar.

Sylvia Plath

#5. The only thing you have for measuring what's real is your mind ... so what happens when your mind becomes a pathological liar?

Neal Shusterman

#6. Dan Coats, retiring senator from Indiana, a mild-mannered man, a former United States ambassador to Germany, former congressman, said of Ted Cruz he's the most self-centered, narcissistic, pathological liar I have ever seen.And he said, you can quote me on that.

Mark Shields

#7. Scott Peterson was a pathological liar to me - nothing he said was the truth.

Scott Peterson

#8. Still, even now, when a woman says something uncomfortable about male misconduct, she is routinely portrayed as delusional, a malicious conspirator, a pathological liar, a whiner who doesn't recognize it's all in fun, or all of the above.

Rebecca Solnit

#9. It's very possible that I could look like a kleptomaniac and a pathological liar and that's why I keep getting hired.

Mila Kunis

#10. When your lover is a liar, you and he have a lot in common, you're both lying to you!

Susan Forward

#11. I keep trying to imagine a universe in which too many public figures declaring themselves feminists would be a bad thing.

Roxane Gay

#12. Love - well, not love at first sight, but love at the end of the season, which is so much more satisfactory.

Oscar Wilde

#13. I'm sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#14. Does the person report having had the experience of meeting people she does not know but who seem to know her, perhaps by a different name? Often, those with DID are thought by others to be lying because different parts will say different things which the host has no knowledge of.

Elizabeth F. Howell

#15. Photographs are a bridge to the past. Black and white reminders of the way things used to be. Links to those who are no longer with us. Priceless treasures.

Jim Starlin

#16. If you learn late, you pass it on to people so they can learn early. It's a step process.

Russell Simmons

#17. When different identity states convey contradictory information and then have amnesia for what the other identity states said, the patient may be thought to be lying. This can appear to be characterological mendacity when it is not.

Elizabeth F. Howell

#18. He just seemed menacing. Like he could slit your throat, then sit down, prop his feet on your corpse, and eat a sandwich.

Dianne Duvall

#19. It wasn't a waste of time if you learned that it was a waste of time.

Ahmed Ali Anjum

#20. My ability to make up lies on the spot chills me as much as it saves me.

Olivia Sudjic

#21. Dikaios smacked Elam with his tail. His curiosity wouldn't kill a sick kitten, much less a cat.

Bryan Davis

#22. I am still cautiously hopeful about the potential of the Internet. But it seems that the greatest revolution in communication has been hijacked by commercial values.

Beeban Kidron

#23. Here, Gentlemen, a dog teaches us a lesson in humanity.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#24. Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.

Arthur Ashe

#25. I'll tell you something that was unusual, though. When most people are caught lying to the police, they cave in pretty quickly. Emma's response was to tell another lie. It might have been planted in her head by her brief, but even so that's not a common reaction.

J.P. Delaney

#26. When I was 16, I got 'Jamon, Jamon.' Of course, I had to lie about my age. And I had to lie to my parents about the content of the script.

Penelope Cruz

#27. I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.

Jack London

#28. Some people have the experience of being accused of lying when they do not think that they have lied. Circle a number to show what percentage of the time this happens to you.
[question from the Dissociative Experiences Scale]

Frank W. Putnam

#29. Politicians in this country have always been for sale. That is nothing new.

Peter Schuyler

#30. The past would haunt when the present let up, and always, always the future would loom with its certainty of tragedy and pain.

Erika Robuck