Liar Quotes

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

Trust, Innocent, Useful

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
Abraham Lincoln

Good, Successful, Enough

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.
Mark Twain

Himself, Truthful

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

Hypocrite, Worse

The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
George Bernard Shaw

Cannot, Else, Anyone

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

Truth, Making, Begins

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

Truth, Speaks, Believed

Success has always been a great liar.
Friedrich Nietzsche

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.
Hannah Arendt

Truth, Trouble, Wishes

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
Samuel Butler

Best, Makes, Lying

I love women, but I feel like you can't trust some of them. Some of them are liars, you know? Like I was in the park and I met this girl, she was cute and she had a dog. And I went up to her, we started talking. She told me her dog's name. Then I said, 'Does he bite?' She said, 'No.' And I said, 'Oh yeah? Then how does he eat?' Liar.
Demetri Martin

Love, Trust, Women

If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.
Logan P. Smith

Truth, Thought, Tell

Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen.
Maimonides

Same, Books, Tongue

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

Good, Best, Truth

I'd rather not have anything than be a liar.
Alicia Keys

I like women, but you can't always trust them. Some of them are big liars, like this one woman I met who had a dog. I asked her her dog's name and then I asked, 'Does he bite?' and she said, 'No.' And I said, 'So how does he eat?' Liar!
Demetri Martin

Trust, Women, Liars

The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.
Lord Chesterfield

Age, Fear, Heart

One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life.
Henry Miller

Life, Though, Fiction

Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar.
J. Edgar Hoover

Truth, Single, Him

Men are liars. We'll lie about lying if we have to. I'm an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a positive.
Tim Allen

Good, Men, Positive

A liar should have a good memory.
Quintilian

A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.
Anita Brookner

Obvious, Charm, Exemplary

It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.
Horace

Great, Truth, Art

Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Hope, Reputation, Universal

Men should pledge themselves to nothing; for reflection makes a liar of their resolution.
Sophocles

Men, Nothing, Makes

Let every man be true and every god a liar.
Samuel Butler

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.
A. A. Milne

May, Effort, Name

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

Good, Everything, Honest

When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.
Isaac Bashevis Singer

Call, Writer, Boy

I'm getting better now, but I used to be incredibly awkward with girls. I think any guy who says 'I've never had an awkward moment with a girl' is a liar.
Daniel Radcliffe

Girl, Moment, Used

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