Lies And Liars Quotes - Page 2

• Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Lying, Creativity, Creative

  8 Copy quote

• If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Funny, Witty, Truth

  Logan Pearsall Smith (1931). “Afterthoughts”

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

  Albert Camus

  Beautiful, Truth, Honesty

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.120, Vintage

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• While photographs may not lie, liars may photograph.

  Lewis Hine

  Photography, Liars, Lying

  10 Copy quote

• The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe.

  H. L. Mencken

  Truth, Lying, Believe

  9 Copy quote

• Anybody who says they are a good liar obviously is not, because any legitimately savvy liar would always insist they're honest about everything.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Liars, Lying, Honest

  24 Copy quote

• All men are born truthful and die liars.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Liars, Lying, Men

  7 Copy quote

• It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Funny, Truth, Liars

  The Idler Feb. 1892, p. 118

  95 Copy quote

  Show source

• The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Liars, Lying

  48 Copy quote

• I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Life, Success, Lying

  Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.901, Delphi Classics

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Cheating, Funny Inspirational

  Mark Twain (2010). “Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review”, p.43, Univ of Wisconsin Press

  364 Copy quote

  Show source

• Lying is done with words and also with silence.

  Adrienne Rich

  Truth, Integrity, Liars

  Adrienne Rich (2002). “Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations”, p.20, W. W. Norton & Company

  27 Copy quote

  Show source

• Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Motivational, Truth

  23 Copy quote

• Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind.

  Austin O'Malley

  Truth, Honesty, Liars

  77 Copy quote

• In a world of lies and liars, an honest work of art is always an act of social responsibility.

  Robert McKee

  Art, Liars, Lying

  13 Copy quote

• Maggie, we're through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.

  Tennessee Williams

  Liars, Lying, Doors

  7 Copy quote