Lies. We’ve all told them, and we’ve all been told them. It’s a part of life, but that doesn’t make it any easier to deal with. Deception is a nasty business, and it can ruin relationships, careers, and lives. That’s why it’s important to be able to spot a liar from a mile away. In this blog post, we will explore the nature of lying and deception through the eyes of some of history’s greatest minds. We will also look at how to protect yourself from liars and how to deal with them when you encounter them in your own life!
Liars Quotes
- “A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.” – Winston Churchill
- “I am not a liar. I am a recovering liar.” – Anne Lamott
- “People will accept your ideas much more readily if they feel that these ideas were their own thoughts.” – Dale Carnegie
- “The liar’s punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.” – George Bernard Shaw
- “Lying is done with words and also with silence.” – Adrienne Rich
- “The man who tells lies hides something from himself, that is why he does it. But the truth is sometimes hidden from us also.” – Rudyard Kipling
- “Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “Telling the truth all the time is not impossible; it just requires more effort than most people are willing to expend.” – Bill Vaughan
- “Deceit, flirtation, and manipulation are the skills of a liar. Don’t be one.” – Richelle E. Goodrich
- “The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.” – Vince Lombardi
- “There are three types of lies — lies, damned lies, and statistics.” – Benjamin Disraeli
- “The greatest liars are always sorry for what they have done.” – William Blake
- “Lying is the most cowardly act there is, because it takes two to lie: one to tell the untruth and one to know it’s a lie and support it.” – Theodore Roosevelt
- “A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.” – Mark Twain
- “If you tell the truth, it becomes a part of your past. If you lie, it becomes a part of your future.” – Unknown
- “It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than always to cheat.” – Samuel Johnson
- “To lie and to deceive, these are the worst vices that a human being can have.” – Josemarti
- “The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.” – Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
- “All lies and jests aside, lies serve a greater purpose than just deceiving someone. They are used as a form of protection.” – Unknown
- “Lying is the most fun a girl can have without taking her clothes off, but it’s better if you do.” – Zoey Deschanel
- “The liar’s punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.” – George Bernard Shaw
- “A half truth is a whole lie.” – Yiddish Proverb
- “Nobody likes a liar, but everybody loves one who tells anecdotes.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “I do not like to repeat gossip, so listen carefully the first time.” – Will Rogers
- “If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.” – Mark Twain
- “A lie is like a snowball — it gets bigger and bigger as it rolls down the hill.” – Unknown
- “When in doubt, tell the truth.” – Mark Twain
- “It is better to be thought a fool, than to open one’s mouth and remove all doubt.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.” – Unknown
- “I like the truth; I like lies too, but I like the truth better.” – Unknown
- “If you speak the truth, have one foot in the stirrup.” – Turkish Proverb
- “You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “The truth is more important than the facts.” – Frank Lloyd Wright
- “Liars often set their own traps.” – Aesop
- “A liar should have a good memory.” – T.M. Logan
- “Liars need to have good memories.” -Algernon Sidney
- “Hypocrites get offended by the truth.” – Jess C. Scott
- “A coward talks to everyone but YOU.” – Shannon L. Alder
- “Liars are always ready to take oaths.” — Vittorio Alfieri
- “Liars are always most disposed to swear.” -Vittorio Alfieri
- “I think all actors are professional liars.” -Sidharth Malhotra
- “Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.” – Aristotle
- “One lie has the power to tarnish a thousand truths.” – Al David
- “Lies don’t end relationships the truth does.” – Shannon L. Alder
- “Be bad, but at least don’t be a liar, a deceiver!” – Leo Tolstoy
- “Lying is done with words, and also with silence.” — Adrienne Rich
- “While photographs may not lie, liars may photograph.” — Lewis Hine
- “The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.” — John Ruskin
- “When a man is penalized for honesty he learns to lie.” – Criss Jami
- “Adding more bull to bull yields bigger bull.” – Cathy Burnham Martin
- “A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.” – Aesop
- “It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.” – George Washington
- “The trust of the innocent is the liar’s most useful tool.” – Stephen King
- “If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.” – Mark Twain
- “Liars are the cause of all the sins and crimes in the world.” – Epictetus
- “No one believes a liar. Even when she’s telling the truth.” – Sara Shepard
- “If you don’t want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.” – Bruce Lee
- “We reveal most about ourselves when we speak about others.” – Kamand Kojouri
- “A persistent liar cannot prosper without a powerful memory.” – Amit Kalantri
- I never lie,” I said offhand. “At least not to those I don’t love. – Anne Rice
- “No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar.” — Abraham Lincoln
- “Denial can be beautiful. But only when you’re a fantastic liar.” – Kim Holden
- “You can best reward a liar by believing nothing of what he says.” – Aristippus
- “The best liars lie with their eyes rather than with their words.” -Joanna Scott
- “Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived.” — Sissela Bok
- “Truth is as straight as an arrow, while a lie swivels like a snake.” – Suzy Kassem
- “Neither a fake friend nor a liar can be trusted, with a secret.” – Ellen J. Barrier
- “The problem with being a liar is you can never believe anyone else.” – Chloe Thurlow
- “Stop falling for those who won’t raise you up in the future.” – Michael Bassey Johnson
- “People don’t lie to contaminate truth. They lie to pollute their hearts.” – Munia Khan
- “People wear a mask of a lie, so they look attractive, so be careful.” – Muhammad Saqib
- “Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.” – Fyodor Dostoevsky
- “Bands that say they don’t care about how their records sell are liars.” -Brandon Flowers
- “Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are your own fears.” — Rudyard Kipling
- “The one who most seems like a liar is the one who tells a bold-face truth.” – Runa Pigden
- “The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!” – Tennessee Williams
- “People lie, cheat and bully one another and then wonder why they’re unhappy.” – Marty Rubin
- “Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.” – Dorothy Allison
- “You do not need to defeat a liar, a liar’s lie is itself his or her defeat.” – Ehsan Sehgal
- “When your ears hear one thing, but your eyes see another…use your brain.” – Frank Sonnenberg
- “A liar is a liar and lives on the lies he tells and dies in a life of lies.” – Carl Sandburg
- “Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind.” — Austin O’Malley
- “The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.” – Samuel Butler
- “Once a country is habituated to liars, it takes generations to get the truth back.” – Gore Vidal
- “Accepting fraud from our leaders means accepting fraud in our personal lives.” – DaShanne Stokes
- “Screaming and repeating lies makes them neither true nor more believable.” – Cathy Burnham Martin
- “Hard truths can be dealt with, triumphed over, but lies will destroy your soul.” – Patricia Briggs
- “When God takes out the trash, don’t go digging back through it. Trust Him.” – Amaka Imani Nkosazana
- “Lies sound like facts to those who’ve been conditioned to misrecognize the truth.” – DaShanne Stokes
- “When your lover is a liar, you and he have a lot in common, you’re both lying to you!” – Susan Forward
- “Some people sometimes kiss and tell; some sometimes tell without having kissed.” – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- “Whoever said that childhood is the happiest time of your life is a liar, or a fool.” – Carlos Ruiz Zafón
- “I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
- “Sometimes your mind and your heart want different things, and you know your heart is a liar.” – Surya Raj
- “All liars … lie to protect themselves, to shield their egos from the raw pain of truth.” – Aminatta Forna
- “Lies are like cockroaches, for every one you discover there are many more that are hidden.” – Gary Hopkins
- “Unfortunately, in today’s world a liar seems to be more reliable than a truthful, honest man.” – Munia Khan
- “Stupidity is to have amnesia over your own faults when the person you hate makes theirs.” – Shannon L. Alder
- “Even a tiny bit of deceit is dishonorable when it’s used for selfish or cowardly reasons.” – Jeanne Birdsall
- “A storyteller makes up things to help other people; a liar makes up things to help himself.” — Daniel Wallace
- “The American people are tired of liars and people who pretend to be something they’re not.” – Hillary Clinton
- “The world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars and the selfish hide in high places.” -Bryant H. McGill
- “If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.” – W. Somerset Maugham
Wrapping Up
Lying is something that we all do, whether we like to admit it or not. And while there are some white lies that can be harmless, sometimes the act of lying can lead to much larger problems. These 100 quotes about liars show just how destructive lying can be – both to the person who is doing the lying and to those who are on the receiving end.
Next time you’re tempted to lie, remember these quotes and think about the potential consequences. Honesty is always the best policy!
Do you have a favorite quote about liars? Share it with us in the comments below!
