Top 100 Quotes About Liar
#1. A convinced man differs from a prejudiced man as an honest man from a liar.
Lord Acton
#2. No one, by swearing, makes themselves an ounce more honest; any more than a man makes himself wealthy by counting his gold. Oaths may make a liar a liar yet again, having lied about the oath as well. But it cannot alter the worth of an honest man's word.
Jake Yaniak
#3. Anyone telling about his travels must be a liar, ... for if a traveler doesn't visit his narrative with the spirit and techniques of fiction, no one will want to hear it.
Paul Fussell
#4. A writer of fiction is really ... a congenital liar who invents from his own knowledge or that of other men.
Ernest Hemingway,
#5. The booze makes you a liar and the lies you tell yourself are the biggest.
J.D. Ruskin
#6. To be able to write a play a man must be sensitive, imaginative, naive, gullible, passionate; he must be something of an imbecile, something of a poet, something of a liar, something of a damn fool.
Robert E. Sherwood
#7. Women can accept the fact that a man is a rotter, a swindler, a drug taker, a confirmed liar, and a general swine, without batting an eyelash, and without its impairing their affection for the brute in the least. Women are wonderful realists.
Agatha Christie
#8. I'm not a liar, sir,' she said.
'No, I'm sure you sincerely become whatever it is you're pretending to be.
Orson Scott Card
#9. Many older physicians had gone to their graves calling Pasteur a liar, a fool, or worse
and without examining evidence which their "common sense" told them was impossible.
Robert A. Heinlein
#10. I can't stand to hear his [Obama's] voice anymore. He's a liar, and worse.
Caroline Kennedy
#11. 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. The only person who is a worse liar than a faith healer is his patient.
Abraham Lincoln
#13. When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say.
George R R Martin
#14. It isn't a bit of use my pretending I'm not crying, because I am ... Pause to mop up. Better now.
Perhaps it would really be rather dull to be married and settled for life. Liar! It would be heaven.
Dodie Smith
#16. Is it true that you shouted at Professor Umbridge?"
"Yes."
"You called her a liar?"
"Yes."
"You told her He Who Must Not Be Named is back?"
"Yes."
"Have a biscuit, Potter.
J.K. Rowling
#18. All men lie. That's how they operate. if you want a longterm relationship with a man you've got to understand it's going to be with a liar. It's in their nature - it's genetic, it's a bloody Darwinian acquired characteristic for survival, OK? They tell you what they want you to hear.
Peter James
#19. I have a friend. He keeps trying to convince me he's a compulsive liar, but I don't believe him.
Ben Bailey
#20. You're a good liar."
He gritted his teeth and held my gaze, Sometimes that's what's required to do what is right in Patrus.
Bella Forrest
#21. Jack may've been deceitful by blood and a liar by nature, but hot damn holy honeysuckle, he knew how to kiss.
Kristin Miller
#22. IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.
Ambrose Bierce
#24. For all that the papers would say I was a liar, I took the words I was saying at briefings as seriously as Tony Blair took what he would say at the Despatch Box. I find it very difficult not to tell the truth. I felt I was accountable for what I said.
Alastair Campbell
#26. Being a writer of fiction isn't like being a compulsive liar, honestly.
Neil Gaiman
#27. 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.
Catherynne M Valente
#28. The liar is no whit better than the thief, and if his mendacity takes the form of slander he may be worse than most thieves. It puts a premium upon knavery untruthfully to attack an honest man, or even with hysterical exaggeration to assail a bad man with untruth.
Theodore Roosevelt
#29. Do I make you nervous?" He asked.
I shook my head.
He pulled me back slightly, looked me in the eye, and smiled.
"Liar."
And then he kissed me.
Kate Brian
#30. As a child I was an inveterate liar. As opposed to now, I am a Novelist.
John Green
#31. The biggest liar in the world is the golfer who claims he plays the game for exercise.
Tommy Bolt
#32. Everything was a miracle until we solved it ... the first man who ever saw a flying fish probably thought he was witnessing a miracle - and the first man who ever described a flying fish was doubtless called a liar.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#33. Just as the liar 's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed , but that he cannot believe any one else; so a guilty society can more easily be persuaded that any apparently innocent act is guilty than that any apparently guilty act is innocent.
George Bernard Shaw
#34. Yes, one uses what one knows, but autobiography means something else. I should never be able to write a real autobiography; I always end by falsifying and fictionalizing - I'm a liar, in fact. That means I'm a novelist, after all. I write about what I know.
Alberto Moravia
#35. This arch-liar today shows that Britain never was in a position to wage war alone. This gabbler, this drunkard Churchill. And then his accomplice in the White House, this mad fool.
Adolf Hitler
#36. You're a liar, Cassel Sharpe. A lying liar who lies.
Holly Black
#37. Thanks from keeping me from being a liar," said Nikolai.
"What?"
"About your having diarrhea."
"For you I'd get dysentery."
"Now that's friendship.
Orson Scott Card
#39. The other day John McCain appeared on the show 'The View,' and one of the hosts accused McCain of being a liar. Yeah, she may have a point, because McCain started the interview by saying, 'Ladies, you look beautiful.'
Conan O'Brien
#40. Lesson NUMBER THREE is that ANYONE WHO TELLS YOU THEY ARE DOING IT ALL PERFECTLY IS A LIAR.
Shonda Rhimes
#41. 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
#42. There is no one of-woman-born who does not like Red Lobster cheddar biscuits. Anyone who claims otherwise is a liar and a Socialist.
Tina Fey
#43. 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
#44. When I am come to mine own again, I will always honor little children, remembering how that these trusted me and believed me in my time of trouble; whilst they that were older, and thought themselves wiser, mocked at me and held me for a liar.
Mark Twain
#45. John McCain is a liar and flip-flopper and panderer and bully and whiner. And it seems to be working
Michael Tomasky
#46. People assume actors are born liars, but I'd argue the actor's job is to tell the truth. And I've realised I'm not a good liar.
Cate Blanchett
#47. Oh.' I shot upright. 'I was in Mongolia.'
Note to self: learn to be a less extreme liar.
Ally Carter
#48. The only thing you have for measuring what's real is your mind ... so what happens when your mind becomes a pathological liar?
Neal Shusterman
#49. 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
#50. We all have regrets. Anyone who says they have none is a liar, and anyone who thinks they'll live without acquiring some is a fool.
Karen Amanda Hooper
#51. Do you know what I think, Potter?' said Snape, very quietly. I think that you are a liar and a cheat and that you deserve detention with me every Saturday until the end of term. What do you think, Potter?
J.K. Rowling
#52. He was brother to a liar and brother to an angel, son of a dream and son of a dreamer.
Maggie Stiefvater
#53. There's nothing that a liar hates more than finding out that another liar has lied to them.
Alan Bradley
#54. A greater liar than the Parthians.
Horace
#55. A lover's a liar,
To himself he lies,
The truthful are loveless,
Like oysters their eyes!
Kurt Vonnegut
#56. A pessimist is a liar, unless he destroys himself, and no less of a hypocrite than a priest who defiles the holy.
Mark Samuels
#57. Follow me, reader! Who told you that there is no true, faithful, eternal love in this world! May the liar's vile tongue be cut out! Follow me, my reader, and me alone, and I will show you such a love!
Mikhail Bulgakov
#58. Neither a fake friend nor a liar can be trusted, with a secret.
Ellen J. Barrier
#60. But what a superb game the three of us are playing. Who is the demon? Who is the liar? Who the human being? Who the cleverest? Who the strongest? Who loves the most? Are we three immense egos fighting for domination or for love, or are these things mixed?
Anais Nin
#61. You have to be a great liar to write fiction, a real historical revisionist.
M. Pierce
#62. He promised us that everything would be okay. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be okay. That did not make my father a liar. It made him my father.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#63. I consider myself someone who takes a lot of beauty risks, and I've realized what I liar I am. I change my hair a lot, from blue to blonde to bald, but I'm trying to branch out a little more with makeup.
Halsey
#65. I love you he said. I did not say anything. What could I say? If i said i love you too, i had perpetual punishment for being a liar.
Arzum Uzun
#66. Especially difficult when the first and best unconscious move of a dedicated liar is to persuade himself he's sincere. And once he's sincere, all deception vanishes.
Ian McEwan
#67. 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
#68. 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
#69. Any actor that's like, 'I hate the fact that I'm getting all of this attention,' is a liar. Especially when it's from the opposite sex.
Donald Faison
#70. I have a friend who is an excellent liar. His secret: Believe the lie yourself when you're telling it.
Jack Heffron
#71. No one believes a liar. Even when she's telling the truth.
Sara Shepard
#72. Inspector Turner's hope to marry a wealthy Mr. Right and leave the service stayed just that - a hope - as so often Mr. Right turned out to be either Mr. Liar, Mr. Drunk or Mr. Already Married.
Jasper Fforde
#73. Hate a liar more than I hate thief. A thief is only after my salary a liar is after my reality.
Curtis Jackson
#74. Historians in England will say I am a liar. But history is written by those who have hanged heroes.
Robert The Bruce
#75. I've earned all these years on my face. I don't want to be a liar if in five or 10 years I do get some Botox, but needles in the face scare me, so I don't really know if I am ever going to do that.
Valerie Bertinelli
#76. the past is a liar
full of promises it can't keep
but like a foolish first love
you keep going back to it
Jennifer Alex Oliveira
#77. I once called the head of a network a liar. In hindsight, I should have called him an incompetent liar.
Steven Levitan
#78. Ashleigh's a manipulative liar," Jenny said. "She makes Dick Cheney look like Mr. Rogers."
"That is an ugly thing to say about Dick Cheney!" Dr. Goodling snapped. "And my daughter, as well.
J.L. Bryan
#79. I love truth and wish to have it always spoken to me: I hate a liar.
[Lat., Ego verum amo, verum volo mihi dici; mendacem odi.]
Plautus
#80. You're naught but a human man. You couldn't possibly understand."
He lifted a brow, still smiling. "Liar."
"Cutpurse."
"Runaway."
"Swindler!
"Coward," he said softly, and she jerked back.
"Bastard!"
"Undoubtedly true." He made a short bow.
Shana Abe
#81. 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
#82. A man who says he feels no fear is either a fool or a liar.
Fred Dibnah
#83. I think I was probably always a liar; I just get paid for it now.
Jason Isaacs
#84. I don't want to hear music, I don't want the sunrise to be pink. The world is a liar. Its ugliness is overwhelming; the scraps of beauty make it worse.
Isaac Marion
#85. Most closed heavens for the Christian are between his ears. Believing a lie empowers the liar.
Bill Johnson
#87. But there they were. Edward Clark, liar and blackmailer extraordinaire, had a better shot at Frederica Marshall than Viscount Claridge. It was the worst of his damned luck that they happened to be the same person.
Courtney Milan
#88. 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
#89. Actually, I'm an excellent liar. But what I'm really good at is appearing appropriately sheepish and adorable after I'm caught.
Julia Quinn
#90. The fly angler who says they have never, ever fallen while wading , is either a pathogenic liar, or has never been fly-fishing.
Jimmy Moore
#91. Liar." I accused.
He laughed and leaned in, close enough for only me to hear his response. "Yes, baby. And so are you.
Alessandra Torre
#92. I'm a good liar. A great one. And to be a great liar you have to live your lies, to believe them, to the point that when you tell them to yourself enough times, even what's right before your eyes will bend itself to the falsehood.
Mark Lawrence
#93. If a man say, 'I love God,' and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen? And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.
John The Apostle
#94. There is something so beautiful in trust that even the most hardened liar need feel a certain respect for those who confide in him.
Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
#95. Has my tale turned you speechless? Come, curse me or kiss me or call me a liar. Something.
George R R Martin
#96. Lies and half-truths hurt not only the liar, but the people they love most.
Katherine Allred
#97. A snowfall softens all the hard noises and hard corners. It's a natural liar. I saw the sky sprinkle down a hundred, a thousand little white lies, and decided I didn't owe Orion anything.
Marie Rutkoski
#98.
Are you saying I'm a liar?
No I'm just, like, speaking.
Colum McCann
#99. Denying the undeniable just makes you sound like a fool as well as a liar.
Ally Carter
#100. I'm very sad about Mitch McConnell probably getting to be Senate majority leader, if only for two years. To me, he is just everything that is wrong with the world, a bullying obstructionist blowhard liar (not to put too fine a point on it).
Anne Lamott
