Bullshitter Quotes & Sayings

Fear was the biggest bullshitter, he'd said. But sometimes, too, fear told the truth. — Deb Caletti

Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It's gossip — Erma Bombeck

Sookie, my little bullet-sucker
Eric, my big bullshitter — Charlaine Harris

Relying so heavily on an individual is dangerous, Because you never truly know who they put their dependency in And when they walk away You'll never fully recover that piece of you they took with them. — Gwyneth Oviere

With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs. — James Thurber

It's like my dear old MeeMaw always says, 'You can't bullshit a bullshitter. — Leah Rae Miller

If there were only one cherry pie in the world, and Bill Clinton owned it, I might get a piece of it. If Bush or Reagan owned it, you'd have to kill them to get a piece of pie. That's my feeling about Bill. And Bill's a good bullshitter. America likes a good bullshitter. That's one of the reasons he was re-elected. Honesty has no place in politics. It would throw everything off. — George Carlin

In science, an observer states his results along with the "probable error"; but who ever heard of a theologian or a politician stating the probable error in his dogmas, or even admitting that any error is conceivable? That is because in science, where we approach nearest to real knowledge, a man can safely rely on the strength of his case, whereas, where nothing is known, blatant assertion and hypnotism are the usual ways of causing others to share our beliefs. If the fundamentalist thought they had a good case against evolution, they would not make the teaching of it illegal. — Bertrand Russell

I am here," Eric said.
"And I am here." I was a little amused at Eric's phone answering technique.
"Sookie, my little bullet-sucker," he said, sounding fond and warm.
"Eric, my big bullshitter. — Charlaine Harris

It is once again the vexing problem of identity within variety; without a solution to this disturbing problem there can be no system, no classification. — Roman Jakobson

Look right at it. Know you can." Dad said. "Look right at that fear. Fear is the biggest bullshitter. — Deb Caletti

The fact about himself that the liar hides is that he is attempting to lead us away from a correct apprehension of reality; we are not to know that he wants us to believe something he supposes to be false. The fact about himself that the bullshitter hides, on the other hand, is that the truth-values of his statements are of no central interest to him ... He does not care whether the things he says describe reality correctly. He just picks them out, or makes them up, to suit his purpose. — Harry Frankfurt

Someone who lies and someone who tells the truth are playing on opposite sides, so to speak, in the same game. Each responds to the facts as he understands them, although the response of the one is guided by the authority of the truth, while the response of the other defies that authority and refuses to meet its demands. The bullshitter ignores these demands altogether. He does not reject the authority of the truth, as the liar does, and oppose himself to it. He pays no attention to it at all. By virtue of this, bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are. — Harry G. Frankfurt

What do you think?" I asked.
"You called me."
"Yeah."
"You told me this stuff."
I wasn't sure if these were questions, but I nodded again, just going with it. "I sure did."
"And you know I'm not a bullshitter."
"It's part of your intrigue." I waved a hand at him. "It completes the whole intimidation factor. Also makes girls wet their pants for you."
That didn't even faze him. He didn't blink. "So I'm going to give you my honest opinion."
"Oh." Now I could see where this was leading. "Okay. Yeah. Give it to me straight."
"What the fuck are you doing?"
"What?"
He got up for a beer, placing one in front of me as well when he returned. "That's why you came to me. You know you're being an idiot, so stop being an idiot. — Tijan

I have to give it to Adam, he's an excellent bullshitter. — Pittacus Lore

I love working on 'Glee,' and I hope that there are more and more parts for me and other actors with Down syndrome in television and in movies so I can keep working for a long, long time. — Lauren Potter

If I was going to lie to you, I'd already be elected. — Gatewood Galbraith

What is this?" "A Smart Car." It looks like an SUV took a dump and out came the Smart Car. I wouldn't be surprised if Westford had said it was one of those toy cars that kids drive around. — Simone Elkeles

If you don't accept excuses, then people will stop giving them and will start looking for solutions. — Benjamin Carson

We all have it in us to be something other than what we are, I thought, but we don't often get a glimpse of what we could have been — Alastair Reynolds

It's no secret that I didn't love 'An Officer And A Gentleman' then, and I certainly don't love it now, so at least no one could accuse me of being inconsistent. — Debra Winger

You can't bullshit a bullshitter. — Jessica Sorensen

Don't try to bullshit a bullshitter. — Carolee Dean

It's bullshit what that bullshitter says. A story's a story, whether it's beautiful or bullshit. — Hassan Blasim

Never bullshit a bullshitter. — Jennifer Niven

No human walking the earth thinks of himself as a bullshitter. — Emily Gould

What is wrong with a counterfeit is not what it is like, but how it was made. This points to a similar and fundamental aspect of the essential nature of bullshit: although it is produced without concern with the truth, it need not be false. The bullshitter is faking things. But this does not mean that he necessarily gets them wrong. — Harry G. Frankfurt