A Quote by Leo Tolstoy

Be bad, but at least don't be a liar, a deceiver!

Leo Tolstoy

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Bad Deceiver Least Liar

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Leo Tolstoy
Russian - Writer
September 9, 1828 - November 20, 1910

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.

Hannah Arendt

The fact is I am guilty of sexual immorality. And I take responsibility for the entire problem. I am a deceiver and a liar. There's a part of my life that is so repulsive and dark that I have been warring against it for all of my adult life.

Ted Haggard

Whenever anyone does as this ad does, plays the actual words of Donald Trump on national television, his response is to yell, "Liar." Their strategy is simply to yell, "Liar, liar, liar."

Ted Cruz

I'm a really bad liar.

Daniel Craig

I'm the worst liar - I can't lie for my life. And I don't lie at all, because I'm the worst liar - but as a kid, I thought I was a great liar, so I would lie all the time, but everybody knew I was lying.

Julia Garner

The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

George Bernard Shaw

There is no such thing as a good writer and a bad liar.

Amy Bloom

I'm a bad liar; I don't know what to say backstage.

Uta Hagen

Even though I'm an actor, I'm a very bad liar.

Andrew Lincoln

I'm a pretty bad liar, and I'm not very good at keeping secrets.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

I am such a bad liar. I would like to lie, though.

Natalie Imbruglia

The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!

Tennessee Williams

What we saw with both Donald Trump and Marco Rubio, that their response, whenever you point to anything in their record, is just to yell, "Liar, liar, liar," and to get very personal and to make direct character attacks. And my approach, from the very beginning of this President's campaign, starting a year ago in 2015, is that I will not respond in kind. I do not intend to insult any of the candidates.

Ted Cruz

For the record, I don't expect you to believe any of this. Not really. I'm a liar by trade, after all; albeit, I like to think, an honest liar.

Neil Gaiman

And yet all loneliness, angers, hatreds, envies, and itchings that it contains, if rolled into one single experience and put into the scale against the least moment of the joy that is felt by the least in Heaven, would have no weight that could be registered at all. Bad cannot succeed even in being bad as truly as good is good.