Unreliable Quotes

19Putting confidence in an unreliable person in times of trouble is like chewing with a broken tooth or walking on a lame foot. — Anonymous

If our life is a dream, let it continue; who wants the reality? If our life is a reality, let it continue; who wants the dream? Unknown is unreliable! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Human conduct is ever unreliable until man is anchored in the Divine. Everything in the future will improve if you are making a spiritual effort now. — Sri Yukteswar Giri

How unreliable is the woman caught being faithful! Today she is faithful to you, tomorrow to another. — Karl Kraus

All his novels are unreliable gospels for those who can't be sure of a thing. — Pico Iyer

Memory, if it is anything at all, is unreliable. — Mira Bartok

If one discards the Bible as being unreliable, then he must discard almost all literature of antiquity. — Josh McDowell

There's something uniquely exhilarating about puzzling together the truth at the hands of an unreliable narrator. — Maria Semple

Our feelings about how we're feeling are notoriously unreliable. — Ariel Garten

He smiles, even attractive, but appearances are unreliable depictions of character. — Emily R. King

Gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you will never be asked to do a thing. — Paul Theroux

With all my ideas and follies I could one day found a corporate company for the propagation of beautiful but unreliable imaginings. — Robert Walser

Fanatics are, for one thing, boring and, for another, unreliable. They tend to burn out just when you need them. — Nikki Giovanni

Susannah's memory had become distressingly spotty, unreliable, like the half-stripped transmission of an old car. — Stephen King

Narrators are often unreliable, and part of the reader's pleasure is figuring out what's really true. The — Lisa Cron

How confusing. Could it be that our narrator is unreliable? No such chance. Mind like a steel trap, I have. — Daniel Handler

If the banks become unreliable lenders, apartment prices will drop dramatically. — Harry Triguboff

Don't be misled by History, or any other unreliable source. — Will Rogers

What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth. — Lillian Hellman

I could tell the officer all of this because it was the truth. All of this happened in the house at some stage. Should it matter when it happened? — Sarah Schmidt

Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship. — Gertrude Stein

Underneath the shifting appearances of the world as perceived by our unreliable senses, is there, or is there not, a bedrock of objective reality? — Hans Christian Von Baeyer

Are you a devious, plotting, unreliable madman? Ah, good, then you can be my most trusted advisor. — Terry Pratchett

It's because in this vast world of unreliable people, he is the one I know I can rely on. — Jamie Kain

Memory, like so much else, is unreliable. Not only for what it hides and what it alters, but also for what it reveals. — Anna Funder

When focusing only on one's credentials one boasts his own incompetence in his capacity for discernment of the individual. — Criss Jami

Success is a miserable teacher. It tempts intelligent people to believe they cannot lose. And it is an unreliable guide to the future ... — Bill Gates

The pages were yellowing a tad but sometimes it was best to go old school for reliable facts. The internet was a flaky and unreliable tool sometimes. — M.E. Harmon

Failure to converge. Confidence limits exceeded.
Further predictions unreliable. — Peter Watts

All events of the past withered to mere skeletons, veined and fleshed of fancy. — Ashim Shanker

Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures. — Evan Esar

Geography was fungible, fluid, unreliable. — Catherynne M Valente

A snob is unreliable. The work he praises might just be good. — Karl Kraus

Anger may bring extra energy, but it eclipses the best part of our brain: its rationality. The energy of anger is almost always unreliable. — Dalai Lama

UFOs: The reliable cases are uninteresting and in the interesting cases are unreliable. — Carl Sagan

At the moment, the general perception ... is that the United States is an unreliable friend and a harmless enemy. — Bernard Lewis

The Earth we evolved to inhabit is turning into something more turbulent and unreliable at a pace too fast for most living things to adapt to. — Rebecca Solnit

Most people wait for the muse to turn up. That's terribly unreliable. I have to sit down and pursue the muse by attempting to work. — Nick Cave

In matters editorial, I am a believer in totalitarian despotism. Most writers are lazy, difficult, selfish, thoughtless, and unreliable. — John Derbyshire

Our feelings are unreliable and cannot be trusted to convey truth. — Joyce Meyer

The idea that affable Boris[Johnson] is actually divisive, selfish and unreliable is Mr 's biggest weakness. — James Kirkup

Apparently I am what is known as an Unreliable Narrator, though of course if you believe everything you're told you deserve whatever you get. — Iain M. Banks

Secrets are unreliable allies. they allow us to believe we are safr, yet all the while they are destroying us. — Deborah Harkness

Why not add another yarn? That's all we are in the end, any of us, a couple of dozen unreliable stories. — Iain Sinclair

Inspiration is the windfall from hard work and focus. Muses are too unreliable to keep on the payroll. — Helen Hanson

Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

The only situation a commander can know fully is his own: his opponent's he can know only from unreliable intelligence. — Carl Von Clausewitz

Who are you, Lucy Snowe? — Charlotte Bronte

We've already established whoever is writing us is an asshole. — John Scalzi

Memory, I realize, can be an unreliable thing; often it is heavily coloured by the circumstances in which one remembers. — Kazuo Ishiguro

And sometimes you realize the value of the rain by knowing how unreliable and vanishing the rainbow is. — Nur Bedeir

In her experience cowboys were notoriously unreliable, generally unfaithful, and rarely capable of settling at all. — Victoria Vane

Driving your car through deep pools of flood water is a great way of making your car unreliable. Smart people turn around and avoid it. — Steven Magee

Eyewitness testimony is notoriously unreliable. — Chris French

By heart, this is not an expression I use lightly. My heart is weak and unreliable. — Nicole Krauss

Venn was like a devilish older sibling, offering that brotherly combination of wholly unreliable and utterly trustworthy. — Tom Rachman

My sources are unreliable, but their information is fascinating. — Ashleigh Brilliant

So too Plato was, in my view, a very unreliable Platonist. He was too much of a philosopher to think that anything he had said was the last word. — Gilbert Ryle

Or, rather, you irritate everyone, Curdle. Because you're so unreliable.'
'I'm not always unreliable, Telorast. — Steven Erikson

Don't doubt your faith; doubt your doubts for they are unreliable. — T. B. Joshua

Give anyone a lever long enough and they can change the world. It's unreliable levers that are the problem. — Terry Pratchett

First impressions are always unreliable. — Franz Kafka

You need not wonder whether you should have an unreliable person as a friend. An unreliable person is nobody's friend. — Idries Shah

All memories fashioned at the level of a child's eye were unreliable in scale ... — Carol O'Connell

But we must understand that emotions are unreliable and at times, tyrannical. They should never be permitted to dominate us. — James C. Dobson

I am a man of my word ... and that word is unreliable. — Demetri Martin

History, that excitable and unreliable old lady. — Guy De Maupassant

Most of the things that "everybody knows" are wrong. The rest are merely unreliable.
Batman — Neil Gaiman

The most unreliable thing in this world is human relationships. — Jack Ma

The brain is unreliable. It relies on lies. — Brian Spellman

Do you not know how uncontrolled and unreliable the average human being is in all that concerns sexual life? — Sigmund Freud

Absolute statements of our unbelief that we make in the darkness are notoriously unreliable. — John Piper

There's nothing so unreliable as figures, and everybody but a mathematician knows that. Figures lie right to your face. — Marjorie Benton Cooke

But sorrow is unreliable in that way. When people don't share it there's a good chance that it will drive them apart instead. Maybe — Fredrik Backman

A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love. — Leonard Cohen

Why are you relying on yourself, only to find yourself unreliable? — Augustine Of Hippo

Real French people don't bake! At least they don't bake anything complicated, finicky, tricky or unreliable. — Dorie Greenspan

Wikipedia was the single most unreliable source of knowledge this side of The National Enquirer. — Paul Combs

I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend. — Edward De Bono

Torture produces unreliable evidence and therefore doesn't achieve and protect anybody. Torture corrupts those who are doing the torturing. — Cherie Blair

If I were God, I certainly wouldn't want people to love me sentimentally. It's too unreliable. — J.D. Salinger

I'm starting to think that pure truth is impossible, and that all narrators and all people are at least a little unreliable. — Susan Juby

People under seventy and over seven are very unreliable if they are not cats. — Leonora Carrington

An untested faith is an unreliable faith. — Kay Warren

We commonly do not remember that it is ... always the first person that is speaking. — Henry David Thoreau

My heart was a hysterical unreliable organ. — Vladimir Nabokov

People treat citizens like they're some kind of unreliable source, but citizens are data. They are a data set. — Josh Fox

As you may know, in this Town, memory is unreliable and uncertain. There are things we can remember and things we cannot remember. — Haruki Murakami

I once terminated a partnership with a chap who proved
unreliable. As a matter of fact, I terminated him. — Edward Bernds

Hope founded upon a human being, a man-made philosophy or any institution is always misplaced ... because these things are unreliable and fleeting. — Charles Stanley

I had done a deed - what was it? — Edgar Allan Poe

Whatever has been achieved through pressure and violence is unstable, unreliable and incorrect. — Janusz Korczak

Memory, of course, is unreliable, often evil, but it is the source of our identity."--Tennessee Williams — James Grissom

I think every first-person narrator in a novel should be compromised. I prefer that word to 'unreliable.' — Charles Palliser

Automobiles are unreliable and dangerous slaves. They frequently revolt and kill their masters. I hate them. — Michael D. O'Brien

his memories from this period were something slightly blur-edged and unreliable, — Hanya Yanagihara

Ceaseless change is an unreliable basis for lasting fulfillment. — Sam Harris

Emotions, he was certain, were unreliable and irrelevant to the labor of religious faith. — Michael D. O'Brien

You are unreliable, Flavia,' he said. 'Utterly unreliable.'
Of course I was! It was one of the things I loved most about myself. — Alan Bradley

One of the fun things about unreliable narrators is they can be funny. You can admire things about them and laugh with them. — Hanya Yanagihara