Liars Quotes

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

  Tennessee Williams

  Lying, Hypocrite, Hypocrisy

  Tennessee Williams, John Patrick Shanley (2010). “The Rose Tattoo”, p.118, New Directions Publishing

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• A thief is a man in need. A liar is a man in fear.

  Khalil Gibran

  Men, Thieves, Needs

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• Denying the undeniable just makes you sound like a fool as well as a liar.

  Ally Carter

  Sound, Fool, Wells

  Ally Carter (2011). “Only the Good Spy Young”, p.193, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.

  William Shenstone

  Lying, Ends, Truth And Falsehood

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.151

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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

  Relationship, Trust, Cheating

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• 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

  Lying, Tyrants, Leader

  Octavia E. Butler (2012). “Parable of the Talents”, p.226, Open Road Media

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• All liars ... lie to protect themselves, to shield their egos from the raw pain of truth.

  Aminatta Forna

  Pain, Lying, Ego

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• One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Lying, Philosophical, Deceived Us

  "The Prince".

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• Pigs are dirty, but I will tell you something dirtier: Liars! Untruth always smells like rotten garbage!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Dirty, Pigs, Smell

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• Of course, the liar often imagines that he does no harm as long as his lies go undetected.

  Sam Harris

  Lying, Long, Doe

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• Liars often set their own traps.

  Aesop

  Traps

  Albert Cullum, Aesop (1972). “Aesop in the afternoon”

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• The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

  Stephen King

  Trust, Lying, Purity And Innocence

  Stephen King (2016). “Needful Things”, p.507, Simon and Schuster

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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

  Hate, Reality, Hip Hop

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• 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

  Believe, Reality, Color

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• If you're really successful at bullshitting, it means you're not hanging around enough people smarter than you.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Lying, Mean, Successful

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• 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

  Confused, Lying, Heart

  Twitter post from Apr 27, 2015

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• If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.

  Adolf Hitler

  Truth, Lying, Rise To Power

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• 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

  Successful, Reflection, People

  "Big Lies in Politics". townhall.com. May 22, 2012.

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• 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

  Lying, Keys, Pieces

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• A liar is a liar and lives on the lies he tells and dies in a life of lies.

  Carl Sandburg

  Lying, Deceit, Dies

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.192, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There are no 'perfect liars' in the world; there are only 'perfect believers' who believe in even the most obvious lies!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Lying, Believe, Perfect

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• He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Lying, Deception, Easier

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”, p.286

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• 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

  Lying, Believe, Men

  Robert Payne (1975). “The Corrupt Society: From Ancient Greece to Present-Day America”, Praeger Publishers

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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

  Honesty, Crowns, Stains

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Soul Of The Fire”, p.557, Head of Zeus

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• 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

  Lying, Hero, Honor

  "Jesse Ventura refuses to see 'American Sniper,' says Chris Kyle is no hero". www.foxnews.com. January 29, 2015.

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