Top 33 Lies Lying Liars Quotes
#1. Is it not ignorance that we share? A lie takes two. The truth we find alone.
Anthony Marais
#3. Once a man gets a reputation as a liar, he might as well be struck dumb, for people do not listen to the wind.
Robert A. Heinlein
#4. America is a nation of liars, and for that reason science fiction has a special claim to be our national literature, as the art form best adapted to telling the lies we like to hear and to pretend we believe.
Thomas M. Disch
#5. A man who lies, thinking it is the truth, is an honest man, and a man who tells the truth, believing it to be a lie, is a liar.
William Safire
#6. I was brought up to never lie. Sure, I have. But in the final mix, the lies I've told are far outweighed by the truths I've lived.
Kelsey Grammer
#7. 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
#8. Just look carefully, I only want you to look carefully. Do not repeat the lies of liars. Do not become like them. Once again, I blame al-Jazeera before it ascertains what takes place. Please, make sure of what you say and do not play such a role.
Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf
#9. He who lies artistically, treads closer to the truth than ever he knows.
Fritz Leiber
#10. All religions seem alike to me, one mass of absurdities and lies - I know that there is a God, but I know no more of him; and I believe that all those are liars who pretend to know more than I do.
Mary Martha Sherwood
#11. 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
#13. If everyone lives roughly the same lies about the same thing, there is no one to call them liars. They jointly establish their own sanity and themselves normal.
Ernest Becker
#14. Sometimes, lies were the same things as wishes. Sometimes, wishes were things to hate.
Shannon A. Thompson
#15. When your lover is a liar, you and he have a lot in common, you're both lying to you!
Susan Forward
#16. Like the layers of an onion, under the first lie is another, and under that another, and they all make you cry.
Derrick Jensen
#17. A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
#18. 'Liar' is just as ugly a word as 'thief,' because it implies the presence of just as ugly a sin in one case as in the other. If a man lies under oath or procures the lie of another under oath, if he perjures himself or suborns perjury, he is guilty under the statute law.
Theodore Roosevelt
#19. Unethical conduct is actually the conduct of destruction and fear; lies are told because one is afraid of the consequences should one tell the truth; thus, the liar is inevitably a coward, the coward is inevitably a liar.
L. Ron Hubbard
#20. A Gossip is a dung beetle in disguise ....
M. Jackson
#21. As old lies are laid to rest, new ones sprout from their ashes, as deadly as their ancestors
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#22. Of course, the liar often imagines that he does no harm as long as his lies go undetected.
Sam Harris
#23. You can't have a "debate" with people who constantly tell crazy lies. Pretending you can only legitimates their crazy lies.
Adam Kotsko
#24. 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.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#25. We contradict all for which we stand for we all stand for the lie the whole lie and nothing but the lie so help save our lying asses.
Brian Spellman
#26. One lie has the power to tarnish a thousand truths.
Al David
#27. It is clear enough by now to most people that the camera never lies is a foolish saying. Yet it is doubtful whether most people realize how extraordinarily slippery a liar the camera is.
James Agee
#28. Lies are like cockroaches, for every one you discover there are many more that are hidden.
Gary Hopkins
#30. 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.
C. Snyder
#31. A liar is a liar and lives on the lies he tells and dies in a life of lies.
Carl Sandburg
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