liar

For my own part, I don't believe in a partial liar--this art does not deal in veneer; a liar is a liar right through.

"A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth."

The Gentleman replied: "It is improbable that its authors have accurately expressed my views without consulting me; and if I indorsed their work without approving it I should be a liar."

An habitual liar's nearest approach to truth: the perigee of his eccentric orbit.

"You're a first-class liar, Kiselev, when I come to look at you!"

This fellow is either a lunatic or merely a liar--just a plain, every-day liar whom Yountsey has no call to kill.

"He was a great, a truly great liar, perhaps the greatest liar that ever lived."*

Something wonderful happened--or the man's a champion liar, which is the more probable supposeetion.

Thus, silly reportorial unveracity usually proves extraordinary truth a liar. It is the way of cub reporters, city newspapers, and flat-floor populations which get their thrills from moving pictures and for which the real world and all its spaciousness does not exist.

Besides, this idea of Jonah's weathering the Cape of Good Hope at so early a day would wrest the honor of the discovery of that great headland from Bartholomew Diaz, its reputed discoverer, and so make modern history a liar. But all these foolish arguments of old Sag-Harbor only evinced his foolish pride of reason --a thing still more reprehensible in him, seeing that he had but little learning except what he had picked up from the sun and the sea.

It is indeed sacrilege to touch a true Isanusi, but what if the Isanusi be a liar? What if he smell out falsely, bringing those to death who are innocent of evil?

How know we that if we lift our spears it may not be for a thief and a liar? It is a great matter, I say, of which none can see the end.