These Liars quotes will inspire you. Liar, a person who does not tell the truth; falsifier, perjurer, prevaricator.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, knowledgeable, and encouraging liars quotes, liars sayings, and liars proverbs.
Best Liars Quotes
- “All liars … lie to protect themselves, to shield their egos from the raw pain of truth.” ~ Aminatta Forna
- “A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.” ~ William Shenstone
- “The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!” ~ Tennessee Williams , Hate liars quotes
- “Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.” ~ Octavia Butler
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“I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
- “The trust of the innocent is the liar’s most useful tool.” ~ Stephen King
- “I’ve studied pathological liars, and anything they say, they believe, and that’s one of the reasons they’re so convincing because they have no connection with the truth. It’s a dead issue. It’s like they’re color-blind to the truth. So anything that comes out of their mouths is their reality.” ~ Jane Velez-Mitchell
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“Hate a liar more than I hate thief. A thief is only after my salary a liar is after my reality.” ~ Curtis Jackson
- “If you’re really successful at bullshitting, it means you’re not hanging around enough people smarter than you.” ~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
- “The most confused we ever get is when we’re trying to convince our heads of something our heart knows is a lie.” ~ Karen Marie Moning
- “One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.” ~ Niccolo Machiavelli
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“Once you place that crown of liar on your head, you can take it off again, but it leaves a stain for all time.” ~ Terry Goodkind
- “The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.” ~ Thomas Sowell
- “Corrupt men are always liars. Lies are their instruments, their pleasure, their solace. In time they come to believe their lies, or rather to half-believe them.” ~ Robert Payne
- “If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.” ~ Adolf Hitler
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“Liars often set their own traps.” ~ Aesop
- “A good liar knows that the most efficient lie is always a truth that has had a key piece removed from it.” ~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
- “We all have defining moments. It is in these moments that we find our true characters. We become heroes or cowards; truth-tellers or liars; we go forward or we go backward.” ~ Robert Kiyosaki
- “Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson , Truth liars quotes
- “The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.” ~ H. L. Mencken
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“You can best reward a liar by believing nothing of what he says.” ~ Aristippus
- “A liar is a liar and lives on the lies he tells and dies in a life of lies.” ~ Carl Sandburg
- “When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One’s standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control.” ~ Theodore Dalrymple
- “Show me a liar, and I’ll show you a thief.” ~ George Herbert
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“The biggest liar in the world is They Say.” ~ Douglas Malloch
- “Liars are the cause of all the sins and crimes in the world.” ~ Epictetus
- “There are no ‘perfect liars’ in the world; there are only ‘perfect believers’ who believe in even the most obvious lies!” ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
- “Men in England are ruled, at this minute by the clock, by brutes who refuse them bread, by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern, and therefore wish to enslave.” ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
- “A hero must be honorable, must have honor. And you can’t have honor if you’re a liar. There is no honor in lying.” ~ Jesse Ventura
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“No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
- “Silence the angry man with love. Silence the ill-natured man with kindness. Silence the miser with generosity. Silence the liar with truth.” ~ Gautama Buddha , Love Hate liars quotes
- “Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.” ~ Rudyard Kipling
- “He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.” ~ Charles Peguy
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“Liars, when they speak the truth, are not believed.” ~ Aristotle
- “The liar’s punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.” ~ George Bernard Shaw
- “Be bad, but at least don’t be a liar, a deceiver!” ~ Leo Tolstoy
- “Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death.” ~ Lyman Beecher
- “If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.” ~ Mark Twain
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“Honesty is of God and dishonesty of the devil; the devil was a liar from the beginning.” ~ Joseph B. Wirthlin
- “Once a man gets a reputation as a liar, he might as well be struck dumb, for people do not listen to the wind.” ~ Robert A. Heinlein
- “The liar is no whit better than the thief, and if his mendacity takes the form of slander he may be worse than most thieves. It puts a premium upon knavery untruthfully to attack an honest man, or even with hysterical exaggeration to assail a bad man with untruth.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt
- “I’d rather not have anything than be a liar.” ~ Alicia Keys
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“Liars need to have good memories.” ~ Algernon Sidney
- “He who permits himself to tell a lie once finds it much easier to do it the second time.” ~ Thomas Jefferson
- “The world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars, and the selfish hide in high places.” ~ Bryant H. McGill
- “People who don’t see their own nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are liars and fools.” ~ Bodhidharma
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“No one is such a liar as the indignant man.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
- “The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.” ~ Samuel Butler
- “If falsehood, like truth, had but one face, we would be more on equal terms. For we would consider the contrary of what the liar said to be certain. But the opposite of truth has a hundred thousand faces and an infinite field.” ~ Michel de Montaigne
- “A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.” ~ Mark Twain
- “Feelings are great liars. If Christians worshipped only when they felt like it, there would be precious little worship. We think that if we don’t feel something there can be no authenticity in doing it. But the wisdom of God says something different: that we can act ourselves into a new way of feeling much quicker than we can feel ourselves into a new way of acting. Worship is an act that develops feelings for God, not a feeling for God that is expressed in an act of worship.” ~ Eugene H. Peterson
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“The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
- “Figures don’t lie, but liars figure.” ~ Mark Twain
- “Falsehoods not only disagree with truths but usually quarrel among themselves.” ~ Daniel Webster
- “In all ages, the people have honored those who dishonored them. They have worshiped their destroyers; they have canonized the most gigantic liars and buried the great thieves in marble and gold. Under the loftiest monuments sleeps the dust of murder.” ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
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“If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.” ~ A. A. Milne
- “What can God do for a liar who refuses to repent? Can the Lord save him? He can’t claim salvation. Baptizing him in water will not settle the trouble unless you keep him under.” ~ J. Golden Kimball
- “No lie can live forever.” ~ Jesse Jackson
- “Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived.” ~ Sissela Bok
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“All Cretans are liars.” ~ Epimenides
- “I am a politician which means I am a liar and a crook. When I am not kissing babies I am stealing their lollypops.” ~ Tom Clancy
- “I love women, but I feel like you can’t trust some of them. Some of them are liars, you know? Like I was in the park and I met this girl, she was cute and she had a dog. And I went up to her, we started talking. She told me her dog’s name. Then I said, ‘Does he bite?’ She said, ‘No.’ And I said, ‘Oh yeah? Then how does he eat?’ Liar.” ~ Demetri Martin
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“A lie cannot live.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “I know men and women. An honorable man is an honorable man, and a liar is a liar; both are born and not made. One cannot change to the other any more than that same old leopard can change its spots. After a man tells a woman the first untruth of that sort, the others come piling thick, fast, and mountain high.” ~ Gene Stratton-Porter
- “Pigs are dirty, but I will tell you something dirtier: Liars! Untruth always smells like rotten garbage!” ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
