Top 98 Lying Liar Quotes
#2. You're a liar, Cassel Sharpe. A lying liar who lies.
Holly Black
#3. You lying liar," Vaan said, "who lies to me with lies. Nobody actually likes Shakespeare! They just pretend to sound more cultural and pretentious.
A.D. Truax
#5. The soul is a liar, it's lying to you. A little arrogance is good for the soul though.
Vincent De Paul
#6. 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
#7. If you talk about people that lie, this Ted Cruz, this is the biggest liar I've ever seen.
Donald Trump
#8. A liar is a man who does now know how to deceive, a flatterer one who only deceives fools: he who knows how to make skilful use of the truth, and understands its eloquence, can alone pride himself in cleverness.
Luc De Clapiers
#9. When different identity states convey contradictory information and then have amnesia for what the other identity states said, the patient may be thought to be lying. This can appear to be characterological mendacity when it is not.
Elizabeth F. Howell
#10. Many cherish the idea that a photograph is an exact presentment of nature, and accept without question the paradox that a photograph cannot lie. Actually there never was a more unmitigated liar.
Walter J. Phillips
#12. 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
#13. I was the biggest liar for no reason, and then as I got older, I thought, 'Why am I lying to everybody?' I would hear other people lie and be like, 'You sound so stupid.' So then I would just change my lies. The only person I lie to is my little sister, when I steal her clothes.
Kendall Jenner
#14. The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company.
Oscar Wilde
#16. I'm sorry," she said humbly. "I haven't wanted to lie to you."
"I should hope so. You're the worst liar I've ever met." He thought about it for a moment, then added, "
or the best. Now I'm all confused.
Tamora Pierce
#17. I have a friend who is an excellent liar. His secret: Believe the lie yourself when you're telling it.
Jack Heffron
#18. No one believes a liar. Even when she's telling the truth.
Sara Shepard
#19. I hate a liar. Maybe because I'm such a good one myself, heh? Anyway, to find someone has told an out and out lie puts him on the other side of the fence from me for all time.
Clark Gable
#20. Most closed heavens for the Christian are between his ears. Believing a lie empowers the liar.
Bill Johnson
#22. 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
#23. A liar would be brave toward God, while he is a coward toward men; for a lie faces God, and shrinks from man.
Michel De Montaigne
#24. Oh my God, I am such a liar. And I can't even leave it at just one lie, either. Oh, no. I have to pile it on. I am sick, I tell you. Sick.
Meg Cabot
#25. I was so mad, I reached into the drawer for her fake sushi eraser and put it in my pocket. Serves her right for being such a big, fat, Eggo-scarfing liar.
Sarah Darer Littman
#26. 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
#27. My ability to make up lies on the spot chills me as much as it saves me.
Olivia Sudjic
#28. FIB, n. A lie that has not cut its teeth. An habitual liar's nearest approach to truth: the perigee of his eccentric orbit.
Ambrose Bierce
#29. A liar goes in fine clothes, a liar goes in rags, a liar is a liar, clothes or no clothes.
Carl Sandburg
#30. I'm a very firm believer that a liar is a cheat and a thief and a crook. I don't like liars. I never lie. I always told my own child, If you murder somebody, tell me. I'll help you hide the body. But don't you lie to me.
Leona Helmsley
#31. Who's the bigger liar?
Me or them?
Isn't lying about love the worst lie? Isn't that worse than anything I've ever done?
Justine Larbalestier
#32. I didn't lie; nobody calls me a liar, I may have increased my age.
Frank Buckles
#33. 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.
Holly Black
#34. When your lover is a liar, you and he have a lot in common, you're both lying to you!
Susan Forward
#35. The liar suffers twice: he neither believes nor is believed.
Baltasar Gracian
#36. One of the laudable by-products of the Freudian quackery is the discovery that lying, in most cases, is involuntary and inevitable
that the liar can no more avoid it than he can avoid blinking his eyes when a light flashes or jumping when a bomb goes off behind him.
H.L. Mencken
#37. The liar leads an existence of unutterable loneliness.
Adrienne Rich
#38. We also hate lying because it is more than just fibbing, it is a personal slight. It is the liar's way of saying, "I don't respect you." That is precisely what we tell God when we lie. Lying is our special way of saying to God, "I hate the truth. I hate you.
Todd Friel
#39. Truth will never shine from a heart filled with corruption and lies.
Suzy Kassem
#41. I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It's awful. If I'm on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I'm going, I'm liable to say I'm going to the opera. It's terrible.
J.D. Salinger
#42. Having someone who likes you so much that they think everything you say is the truth has got to be a liar's paradise
Christopher Paul Curtis
#43. As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in neither case will the casual inspiration of the moment suffice. Here, as elsewhere, practice must precede perfection.
Oscar Wilde
#44. You crazy liar," he said breathlessly.
"You knew I was lying."
"Not to - that degree."
"Okay, so maybe I like you a little.
Sarah Cross
#45. I knew when I grew up, I always wanted to be a liar, and if you're in television, you're lying because you're just pretending to be yourself much like I'm doing now.
John Ritter
#46. 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
#47. Does the person report having had the experience of meeting people she does not know but who seem to know her, perhaps by a different name? Often, those with DID are thought by others to be lying because different parts will say different things which the host has no knowledge of.
Elizabeth F. Howell
#52. They reminded me of the biggest liar I ever knew personally. Was a farmer, too. Reputation of pretty good farmer at that, but he lied so he had to hire another man to call his pigs.
Esther Forbes
#53. Even a liar tells a hundred truths to one lie; he has to, to make the lie good for anything.
Henry Ward Beecher
#55. I'm a born liar myself and I know how it's done. You stick as close to the truth as you can. You pretend to volunteer a few bits of information, but the facts are all carefully selected for effect.
Sue Grafton
#57. 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
#58. I lied, yes, but that doesn't make me a liar. Lying's wrong, but when the world spins backwards, small wrong may be a big right.
David Mitchell
#59. The liar wants to be believed, but lying undermines the foundation for credibility.
Randal Marlin
#60. The trouble with a liar is he can't remember what he said.
Cormac McCarthy
#61. You can best reward a liar by believing nothing of what he says.
Aristippus
#62. Lebedeva snapped her fingers. "It's like lying!" she exclaimed. "Well, we understand that, of course! The bigger the lie, the happier the liar.
Catherynne M Valente
#63. Some people have the experience of being accused of lying when they do not think that they have lied. Circle a number to show what percentage of the time this happens to you.
[question from the Dissociative Experiences Scale]
Frank W. Putnam
#64. The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
Samuel Butler
#66. Take back your power! I wish you the wisdom to realize that the problem isn't that they keep lying to you; it's that you keep believing them.
Steve Maraboli
#67. 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
#68. Even a small, everyday lie is a clue to the personality and preoccupations of the liar, like a dream or any other confection of the mind, that is half-conscious and half-unconscious, as all creative acts must be.
Helen McCloy
#69. I am a trained professional liar. Do not read me as a textbook.
Laura Anne Gilman
#70. A liar is a liar and lives on the lies he tells and dies in a life of lies.
Carl Sandburg
#71. Aves hasn't mentioned a boyfriend," Lock chimed in, "and we're just dying to hear all about you." Liar. My friends were filthy lying sadists.
Lish McBride
#72. Unable to meet his steady gaze, I shifted my attention to the stream and cursed myself for being a terrible liar. Actually, allow me to clarify that: I'm great at lying to myself. I'm super crummy at lying to others.
Penny Reid
#73. There never was a liar that had not a spot in him where he could not help admiring truth.
Henry Ward Beecher
#74. '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
#75. You might think you're a good liar, but you're not. I'm better at this than you are. Your professional lying days were limited to junkies and whores, but I routinely lie to Congress . . . Well, never mind. I suppose we're not that different after all.
Larry Correia
#77. Sir, you have tasted two whole worms; you have hissed all my mystery lectures and been caught fighting a liar in the quad; you will leave by the next town drain.
William Archibald Spooner
#79. 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
#80. The liar often suffers from amnesia. Amnesia is the silence of the unconscious.
Adrienne Rich
#81. For a man who walks in the light, to stay humble is not to walk in the dark; you don't need to project yourself to be thought an honest man.
Mike Norton
#82. If you didn't like your own life, you changed it. You ran away. You did something spectacular. you didn't steal someone else's story and pretend it was yours.
Traci Chee
#83. Actually," said Jace, "I prefer to think that I'm a liar in a way that's uniquely my own.
Cassandra Clare
#85. Of course, the liar often imagines that he does no harm as long as his lies go undetected.
Sam Harris
#86. You can lock up from a thief, but you can't from a liar.
Flora Thompson
#87. I am a congenital liar. Some Highlanders are. To my ancestors, the truth was so sacred as to be unusable.
Gladys Mitchell
#88. A liar deceives himself more than anyone, for he believes he can remain a person of good character when he cannot.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#89. A liar doesn't want to think that other people are liars, because then the other people should suspect her of lying too, because she is, and she'll get caught.
Chris Pavone
#90. I'm a liar, but an honest one. People reproach me for not always telling the same story in the same way. But this happens because I've invented the whole tale from the start and it seems boring to me and unkind to other people to repeat myself.
Federico Fellini
#91. I'll tell you something that was unusual, though. When most people are caught lying to the police, they cave in pretty quickly. Emma's response was to tell another lie. It might have been planted in her head by her brief, but even so that's not a common reaction.
J.P. Delaney
#92. Lying caused a physiological reaction that cut the flow of blood to the capillaries located at the end of the nose. It caused a tingling feeling that usually made the liar rub at the spot.
David Baldacci
#93. All fathers are liars ... If you want to be a father, you have to be prepared to become a liar.
Alison Espach
#94. having DID in itself creates intense shame. A person continually has to deal with not remembering what one has said or done. Thus, the person with DID must be quick with inferences and cover-ups. Unfortunately, this often convinces her, as well as others, that she is a liar.
Elizabeth Howell
#95. It sounds very pretentious, but I don't lie. It's too uncomfortable. A lot of people think because you're an actor that makes you a good liar, but one of the things I can't articulate is a bad lie.
Martin Shaw
#96. We all know that a lie needs no other grounds, than the invention of the liar; and to take for granted as truth, all that is alleged against the fame of others, is a species of credulity, that men would blush at on any other subject.
Jane Porter
#97. Every author that creates is a liar;literature is a lie,but from that lie, a recreation of reality is born. Therefore, recreating reality is one of the fundaments of creation.
Juan Rulfo
