Quotes about liars
Marty Rubin -
First one tells a lie then one believes it then one becomes it.
Shannon L. Alder -
When you don’t have honesty in love then there is no communication. Honesty is improvisation of the heart anything less is a well thought out and rehearsed script.
Steve Maraboli -
Cheaters often accuse you of cheating. Liars often accuse you of lying. Insecure people often crumble your security. Behavior speaks... How someone treats you may have nothing to do with you but can be a reflection of who they are.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb - The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
Half of the people lie with their lips the other half with their tears
Joan Collins -
The sad truth is that most of my husbands turned out to be convincing liars.
Melody Carstairs -
A make believe life doesn't win friends and influence people. It bores the crap out of those living the dream.
G.K. Chesterton - What's Wrong with the World
When a man really tells the truth, the first truth he tells is that he himself is a liar.
George Berkeley -
HE who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.
Shannon L. Alder -
When people don’t respect one another seldom is there honesty.
Shannon L. Alder -
A lie has no power, until you believe it.
A.E.H. Veenman -
Thieves and liars kill indirectly, unintentionally, and with no other weapon than their tongues and malice.
Alden Bell - Exit Kingdom
Honey, she says, honest ain’t the half of what I’m not.
Loki - Marvel's The Avengers
You lie and kill in the service of liars and killers. You pretend to be separate, to have your own code, something that makes up for the horrors. But they are part of you. And they will never go away.
Ashly Lorenzana -
99% of all addicts are liars and thieves. This might sound unfair and even close-minded, but it's the truth. There are some exceptions to the rules, but they are incredibly rare. Most people are no match for their addictions. They will be driven to do things they would normally never have considered all in the name of getting high. Sad, but true. So if you're thinking of trying drugs, keep in mind that all the people you will be dealing with are likely to steal from you and lie to you at your ow
Daniel Keys Moran -
Actors are good liars, writers are good liars with good memories.
Joseph Lewis - An Atheist Manifesto
The church knows that an educated man is an unbeliever. That is why there is a continual struggle on the part of the clergy to adulterate education with superstition. To maintain their untenable position they must keep the people shackled to a form of mental slavery. Both fear and superstition are forms of a contagious disease.The ignorance of man produced natural fears of the elements of nature. What he could not understand he attributed to malevolent spirits whose primary purpose was to punish
Kate Morton - The Forgotten Garden
The simplest falsehoods are the strongest.
John Steinbeck - East of Eden
Cathy's lies were never innocent. Their purpose was to escape punishment, or work, or responsibility, and they were used for profit. Most liars are tripped up either because they forget what they have told or because the lie is suddenly faced with an incontrovertible truth. But Cathy did not forget her lies, and she developed the most effective method of lying. She stayed close enough to the truth so that one could never be sure. She knew two other methods also -- either to interlard her lies wi
J.R.R. Tolkien - The Silmarillion
But he that sows lies in the end shall not lack of a harvest, and soon he may rest from toil indeed, while others reap and sow in his stead.
Lauren Oliver - Annabel
See?” my mother would say, smiling at me and my sister, Carol, in turn. “We live in the greatest country on earth. See how lucky we are?”And yet the ash continued swirling down, and the smells of death came through the windows, crept under the door, hung in our carpets and curtains, and screamed of her lie.Is it possible to tell the truth in a society of lies? Or must you always, of necessity, become a liar?And if you lie to a liar, is the sin somehow negated or reversed?These are the kinds of q
Fritz Leiber -
He who lies artistically, treads closer to the truth than ever he knows.
Roger Zelazny - Lord of Light
I'm very gullible when it comes to my own words. I believe everything I say, though I know I'm a liar.
Gary Hopkins -
Lies are like cockroaches, for every one you discover there are many more that are hidden.
Justin K. McFarlane Beau -
The ability to lie, paired with unaccountability, has made a near infinite amount of liabilities.
Michael Bassey Johnson -
I am not superior than anybody, don't say i am, else i won't defend you when you get caught.
Ryū Murakami - In the Miso Soup
I wonder why people you have to meet have to be such liars. They lie as if their lives depended on it.
Munia Khan -
When you ‘lie’ to me, you don’t ‘lie down’ or lay.Even after the game you still want to play.
Johann Gottlieb Fichte -
A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.
Irfan Ullah Hosain -
Everybody hates lies even the liars themselves
Chloe Thurlow - The Secret Life of Girls
The problem with being a liar is you can never believe anyone else.
Ana Claudia Antunes - ACross Tic
Seropusly, why do flies line up in the sky every time someone lies? Hovering over they long to take the shit out from where It belongs so They compete to eat it alive.
Deyth Banger -
Warns, lies, liars and mysteries everything in one place what more awesome than that???Better check out Blindspot!
Bosnian Proverb -
Who lies for you will lie against you.
C. Snyder -
Sometimes a policeman must confront people about lying. No one likes to be called a liar. But it is what it is! A fact is a fact! If someone is a liar, put them on notice. You should not be punished for doing the right thing. It is the job of a good investigator to get the truth.
Derrick Jensen - A Language Older Than Words
Like the layers of an onion, under the first lie is another, and under that another, and they all make you cry.
John Clare -
Yet simple souls, their faith it knows no stint:Things least to be believed are most preferred.All counterfeits, as from truth's sacred mint,Are readily believed if once put down in print
Howard L. Salter -
You don’t have to feed the lie if you don’t want it to. If you make it credible it will become that, but only in your mind and only as disproportionate as you’ve decided it is. Truth has a way of being more persistent and if the two ever meet, truth will win.
Billy Graham - Billy Graham in Quotes
I have met men who are habitual liars. They have lied so long that they no longer can distinguish between the truth and a lie. Their sensitivity to sin has been almost completely deadened.
Stefan Molyneux -
The ones who are insane enough to think that they can rule the world are always the ones who do.
Deyth Banger -
Mind", can't make differences between real and not..., (OFF NOW THAT..., then that...), you are saying lie after lie..., then believing in false stuff. And thinking in positive sides so to scream not much as the other do, but as always you one moment scream you can't stop it... Now putting against me a knife and saying "Go away... give me my daughter... give me her back"..., don't you see the people laugh at you, don't you see it. Look their faces, with so many smiles, but they aren't people, th
Shannon A. Thompson - July Lightning
Sometimes, lies were the same things as wishes. Sometimes, wishes were things to hate.
Auliq Ice - The Last and the Lost
A hundred words put together to formulate an excuse will never resolve a conflict, political justifications are silly lies.
Jenny Han - To All the Boys I've Loved Before
If people knew you, they would love you." He sounds matter-of-fact.Josh, you break my heart. And you're a liar.Because you know me, you know me better than almost anybody, and you don't love me.
Orson Scott Card - Children of the Mind
My father once told methat there are no gods;only the cruel manipulationsof evil peoplewho pretended that their power was goodand their exploitation was love.But if there are no gods;why are we so hungry to believe in them?Just because evil liarsstand between us and the godsand block our view of themdoes not mean that the bright halothat surrounds each liaris not the outer edges of a god, waitingfor us to find our way around the lie.
Deyth Banger -
Oh, oh, oh I can't do that and that... Okay I will do that,... I gonna read this book, I will check out this film and in the end few of them have read the book or the books and the film or the films.
Shannon L. Alder -
Relationships with negative people are simply tedious encounters with porcupines. You don’t have the remote knowledge how to be close to them without quills being shot in your direction.
Philip K. Dick - Confessions of a Crap Artist
The household was pervaded by this atmosphere of a calm adult woman and a man who gave into animal impulses. She reported to him in great detail what her analyst ... said about his binges and his hostility; she used Charley's money to pay Dr. Andrews to catalog his abnormalities. And of course Charley never heard anything directly from the doctor; he had no way of keeping her from reporting what served her and holding back what did not. The doctor, too, had no way of getting to the truth of what
Auliq Ice -
Life has taught me to release my ears from hearing negativity, destructive remarks, false rumors and stupid ways. I learn to open my eyes and my mind to think ahead of my life, to learn more of who I am.
Auliq Ice -
Every politician brings in a wide range of context, promises and characters to bring his mission of you to listen to his words and vote for him and later he won't listen to you at any range.
Kevin Hearne - Trapped
PR guys get paid to make people believe that a pile of shit is an investment in soil fertility. Professional liars.”“Ah!” Manannan’s expression lit with comprehension. “They are politicians?
Shannon L. Alder -
She builds people up because she knows what it is like to be torn down.
Catherynne M. Valente - Deathless
Someone ought to write a novel about me,” said Lebedeva loftily. “I shouldn’t care if they lied to make it more interesting, as long as they were good lies, full of kisses and daring escapes and the occasional act of barbarism. I can’t abide a poor liar.
French proverb -
Travellers from afar can lie with impunity.
Jewish proverb -
Truth is the safest lie.
Vauvenargues -
All men are born truthful and die liars.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
The lie is a condition of life.
Norman Douglas -
It takes a wise man to handle a lie. A fool had better remain honest.
Samuel Butler -
We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.
Bosnian proverb -
Who lies for you will lie against you.
Robert Louis Stevenson -
The cruellest lies are often told in silence.
Samuel Johnson -
I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him you have no business with consequences you are to tell the truth.
Samuel Butler -
I do not mind lying but I hate inaccuracy.
Saki -
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanations.
Jewish proverb -
A half-truth is a whole lie.
Quintilian -
A liar should have a good memory.
Sydney Smith -
Oh don't tell me of facts - I never believe in facts you know Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts except figures.
M. Jackson -
A Gossip is a dung beetle in disguise ....
Holly Black - Black Heart
She looks honestly upset, but then, I’ve learned that I can’t read her. The problem with a really excellent liar is that you have to just assume they’re always lying.
Robert Black -
Politicians are people who learn not to blink, when they lie.
John Jeremiah Sullivan - The Best American Essays 2014
Sounding frank, honest, and sincere is, of course, a rhetorical strategy in itself, known from ancient literature as parrhesia. It’s often employed by liars.
Donna Lynn Hope -
Do we really need a study on why people lie? They lie because it's easy, and cowards are good at "easy." Telling the truth takes moxie, and few have it.
Arthur Schopenhauer -
If we suspect that a man is lying, we should pretend to believe him; for then he becomes bold and assured, lies more vigorously, and is unmasked.
Sam Harris - Lying
Of course, the liar often imagines that he does no harm as long as his lies go undetected.
Douglas Malloch -
The biggest liar in the world is They Say.
Howard L. Salter -
A lie carries a weight that is exponentially higher than the truth. It’s weight will retard growth directly in proportion to the area lied.
C. JoyBell C. -
Do everything with your whole heart, or not at all. Don't put up with lies or with people who lie to you. Don't risk hurting people just for the fun of it. And lastly, your best foot shouldn't be put forward; it should be with you at all times— right there beside the other one.
Donna Leon - By Its Cover
Guilo, although a lawyer, never lied; at least not to his friends.
Ellen J. Barrier -
Neither a fake friend nor a liar can be trusted, with a secret.
Israelmore Ayivor - Leaders' Watchwords
The bedrock of corruption is the attitude of selfishness. Nations are ruined when politicians think for themselves first before thinking about anyone else!
Deb Caletti - The Secret Life of Prince Charming
If you look up "charming" in the dictionary, you'll see that it not only has references to strong attraction, but to spells and magic. Then again, what are liars if not great magicians?
Shannon Wiersbitzky - What Flowers Remember
Eyes aren't good liars.
Alice Hoffman - Property Of
You should never trust a liar so you should never trust a man of honor. Those two are the worst of mankind.
Auliq Ice -
A human being who trades away individuality for conformity is nothing but a slave.
Holly Cupala - Tell Me a Secret
If pregnant girls were sinner, what were liars called?
E. Lockhart - We Were Liars
Always do what you're afraid to do. ...I will prove myself strong when they think I am sick. I will prove myself brave when they think I am weak.
Charlyn Khater -
We often find that People who claim virtue are the ones to lack it the most.
Auliq Ice -
To be straight means to be loyal to the truth.
Bria Guishard -
Most of us lie because it is our last resort to get out of any uncomfortable situation.
Michael Grant - Lies
How do we stop them?” Edilio asked. He raised his head, and Sam saw the distress on his face. “How do you think we stop them? When your fifteenth birthday rolls around, the easy thing is to take the poof. You gotta fight to resist it. We know that. So how are we going to tell kids this isn’t real, this Orsay thing?”“We just tell them,” Astrid said.“But we don’t know if it’s real or not,” Edilio argued.Astrid shrugged. She stared at nothing and kept her features very still. “We tell them it’s all
Deyth Banger -
I know when you say a lie... and now I bet 200$ that you lie.
Deyth Banger -
How I know that??? Or that???I'm around liars and scammers I know a lot of them.... I will only say this.
Mark Lawrence - Prince of Thorns
Gomst's mouth framed a 'no', but every other muscle in him said 'yes'. You'd think priests would be better liars, what with their jobs and all.
O. Henry -
All of us have to be prevaricators, hypocrites, and liars every day of our lives; otherwise the social structure would fall into pieces the first day. We must act in one another's presence just as we must wear clothes. It is for the best
Karen Maitland - Company of Liars
Miracles are like murders. After the first one, each becomes easier than the last for, with each success, the miracle-worker's certainty in himself becomes stronger.
Muhammad Saqib -
People wears a mask of lie so they look attractive , so be careful
Shannon L. Alder -
Only a demon would prevent a person from saving lives or fulfilling their life mission. There is no reasoning with the devil. Stand with pride because your heart is filled with the goodness of helping others, while theirs is filled with helping themselves.
Crystal Woods - Write like no one is reading
Never believe the beautiful. Trust me on this.
Victoria Schwab - The Unbound
Wesley's touch lingers on my skin. His music echoes through my head. I remind myself as I scrub my skin that we are both liars and con artists. That we will always have secrets, some that bind us and some that cut between us, slicing us into pieces.
Michael Bassey Johnson -
If a creative person steals your idea, he’s killing his creative ability, if he steals your art, he’s killing his art, if he makes it available to the world, it won,t create de impact you could have created, because it wasn’t from the right source.