Liars Quotes

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Liars often set their own traps.

  Aesop

  Traps

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

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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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• 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

  Hero, Character, Coward

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• 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

  Suicide, Truth, Honesty

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.318, Harvard University Press

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• A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.

  Aesop

  Lying, Literature, Fables

  Aesop (2015). “Aesop's Fables”, p.44, Pelekanos Books

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• 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

  Success, Truth, Lying

  H. L. Mencken (1924). “Prejudices Fourth Series”

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• You can best reward a liar by believing nothing of what he says.

  Aristippus

  Lying, Believe, Rewards

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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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• 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

  Lying, People, Evil

  "Our Culture, What’s Left Of It". Interview with Jamie Glazov, archive.frontpagemag.com. August 31, 2005.

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• Show me a liar, and I'll show you a thief.

  George Herbert

  Inspirational, Thieves, Show Me

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