Top 100 Quotes About Liars
#1. 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
#2. The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.
Thomas Sowell
#4. He sounded genuine, but Myron knew that meant nothing. People were amazing liars.
Harlan Coben
#5. And wondering where he had read that clever liars give details, but that the cleverest do not.
Edith Wharton
#7. In the theatre, we're all charlatans and liars and scavengers and fly-by-nights.
Simon McBurney
#8. Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.
Rudyard Kipling
#9. Writers are liars trying to come clean. That's why the best ones are the most tragic.
Anthony Marais
#10. Every war results from the struggle for markets and spheres of influence, and every war is sold to the public by professional liars and totally sincere religious maniacs, as a Holy Crusade to save God and Goodness from Satan and Evil.
Robert Anton Wilson
#11. He knew his parents were liars. He'd known since the day he'd found his brother's dead body stuffed inside a suitcase.
Kirkland Ciccone
#12. My years in the shadows have taught me many things. Who carries the most money, who won't notice you, and what liars look like
Victoria Aveyard
#13. Beware of feelings, Father. They are the biggest liars in us. They make truth what we want it to be.
Dorothy Salisbury Davis
#14. There are no pessimists; there are only realists and liars.
Paul Virilio
#15. It is silly to go on pretending that under the skin we are brothers. The truth is more likely that under the skin we are all cannibals, assassins, traitors, liars and hypocrites.
Henry Miller
#16. It's amazing how many cheaters and liars believe they won't be caught. News Flash: In today's age of technology, there won't just be a paper trail. There will be multiple electronic and digital trails, as well.
Cathy Burnham Martin
#17. The first axiom of Marx Scientist is that everything they tell you is a lie. The second axiom is that it doesn't matter, since you are lying too. The third axiom is 'Kill all liars!
Roger Scruton
#18. 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
#19. If, instead of saying that thieves will go to prison or liars will go to hell, we could make people think that stealing is as bad as going to a funeral in a coloured tie, or lying as bad as frying a sausage on the parlour fire, we should achieve a colossal reformation.
FitzRoy James Henry Somerset
#21. The student of history knows no more refreshing recreation than that of nailing liars, like vermin, to the wall.
Frederick Rolfe
#22. 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
#23. Yes, I am a terrorist, and proud of it as long as it is against the U.S. government and against Israel, because you are more than terrorists; you are the one who invented terrorism and using it every day. You are butchers, liars and hypocrites.
Ramzi Yousef
#24. 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
#25. I'd love to go to fashion week! I'm learning more about designers, thanks to 'Pretty Little Liars' costume designer, Mandi Line.
Lucy Hale
#26. We all have thoughts that we would never, ever vocalise. And people who say they don't are liars.
L. H. Cosway
#27. The U.S. government officials lie when they talk about human rights. They're a bunch of hypocrites and liars.
You can't take it seriously.
Eqbal Ahmad
#28. I think 80 percent of the population are really great, caring people who will help you and tell you the truth. That's just the way it is. And I think 20 percent of the population are crooks and liars. It's just a fact.
Tom Hanks
#29. Popular culture tells you that schools and parents don't know what's going on, the police are dogs, politicians are all liars and scum, and any crime that's not committed by the Mafia is done by the CIA.
Stanley Crouch
#30. Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.
Aristotle.
#31. There is not a scrabble word for how bad I feel." -We Were Liars
E. Lockhart
#32. Consider this a warning. Liars will lie, and continue to do so, even beyond being caught out. They will lie, and in time, such liars will convince themselves, will in all self-righteousness divest the liars of culpability.
Steven Erikson
#33. In this world, we must love the liars or go unloved
Sherman Alexie
#34. We are all deceivers to some degree. The difference between safe and unsafe "liars" is that safe people own their lies and see them as a problem to change as they become aware of their deception.
Henry Cloud
#35. Anorexics are the best liars in the world. You do anything to keep control. You place people into separate categories, those you trust, those you don't, those you can confide in and those whom you lie to. But of course the reality is that underneath it all, you are lying to yourself all the time.
Peter Barham
#36. 'Twisted' is similar to 'Pretty Little Liars' in that it's about trying to find out who did it, but it's more about the human relationships between characters and the strain that things can put on them. It's also a little bit of a social commentary piece, because it covers very timely issues.
Avan Jogia
#37. It's amazing how many Noble Liars and their ilk are eager to embrace ethical violations - with all due bewailing of their agonies of conscience - when they haven't spent even five minutes by the clock looking for an alternative.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#38. Writers are the biggest liars, only the best.
Marty Rubin
#39. Warns, lies, liars and mysteries everything in one place what more awesome than that???
Better check out Blindspot!
Deyth Banger
#40. Coincidence. That's an explanation used by fools and liars.
Lionel
#41. I believe in God but people are liars. It's those people who say they are appointed by God who I don't believe in.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
#42. People who boast of happy marriages are, I submit, usually self-deceivers, if not actually liars.
Iris Murdoch
#43. I don't tolerate liars. When somebody lies to me, that's really, like, just unbearable.
John Lydon
#44. The last condescended from Academy spires Pretended at life with a cold, dead heart Face like a crypt, from a family of liars Quietly, quietly played . . . her . . . part. - Children's nursery rhyme
K.D. Castner
#45. Writing sucks. I think it's terrible. Writing is not fun, and don't trust anyone who claims to enjoy it. Liars!
Rian Johnson
#46. C++ is a language strongly optimized for liars and people who go by guesswork and ignorance.
Erik Naggum
#47. If pregnant girls were sinner, what were liars called?
Holly Cupala
#48. Keep clear of the dupes that talk democracy and the dogs that talk revolution, drunk with talk, liars and believers. I believe in my tusks. Long live freedom and damn the ideologies, said the gamey black-maned wild boar tusking the turf on Mal Paso Mountain.
Robinson Jeffers
#49. Someone once asked me what I want on my epitaph when I pass away. Just the words 'I tried.' That's what this game of life is all about. Trying. There's the tryers, the criers, and the liars.
Mickey Rooney
#50. There is a set of harmless liars, frequently to be met with in company, who deal much in the marvellous. Their usual intention is to please and entertain; but as men are most delighted with what they conceive to be the truth, these people mistake the means of pleasing, and incur universal blame.
David Hume
#51. Are you tired of lyrical liars, passing fliers,
Wannabe MC's, but really good triers,
Tripping over mic cords, getting you bored,
A total fraud, this kind of thing I can't afford!
KRS-One
#52. I have a lot of heroes. I don't think people give enough of a tribute to their mentors. They try to act like they're spontaneous generations - they are faking liars.
John Leguizamo
#53. I have found that liars in the end communicate more truth than do truth tellers." "How's that?" "Because truth is the safest lie.
Douglas Preston
#54. Sometimes there isn't a good guy or a bad guy. Sometimes even the ones you want to believe turn out to be liars.
Sarah Dessen
#55. Honestly I'm not a huge TV person. The only show that I've seen every episode of is 'Pretty Little Liars.' It's my favorite show. I wish I could get into other shows, but I just don't have time!
Sabrina Carpenter
#56. Never trust a storyteller," he says. "We're all of us liars.
Matthew J. Kirby
#57. All men are liars, said Roberta Muldoon, who knew this was true because she had once been a man.
John Irving
#58. Our rational, grown-up selves are good liars. The five-year-old tyrants within us are the ones who can tell it like it is.
Brene Brown
#59. There are two types of people on social media: people who want more followers, and liars.
Guy Kawasaki
#61. Appreciate the liars. When people don't hide things, it means they don't care enough to be afraid of losing you.
Danielle Evans
#62. I have one major problem with the Internet: It's full of liars.
John Lydon
#63. But here's the thing - lying would have become useless thousands of years ago if countering it was as simple as dismissing the liars completely. The really good liars were like chemists, brewing formulas that were mostly truth, the toxins undetectable in the mixture.
David Wong
#64. Free folk and kneelers are more alike than not, Jon Snow. Men are men and women women, no matter which side of the Wall we were born on. Good men and bad, heroes and villains, men of honor, liars, cravens, brutes ... we have plenty, as do you.
George R R Martin
#65. I wear my crown of thorns on my liars chair, full of broken thoughts I cannot repair, beneath the stain of time the feelings disappears. What have I become, my sweetest of friends?
Johnny Cash
#66. He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.
Charles Peguy
#67. You were speaking of my name a little while ago. That touched me; but let us, whoever we may be, distrust names. They may delude us. I am called Felix, and I am not happy. Words are liars. Let us not blindly accept the indications which they afford us. It
Victor Hugo
#68. Never trust a fiction author. They spend countless hours making you believe in a world they created. They are among the best, most dedicated liars in the world.
James Ticknor
#69. One can be a good person and still believe that certain behaviors are a sin. I personally think lying is a sin, but some of my best friends are liars.
Tom King
#70. So I left words of forgiveness to God and liars and I enjoyed my hatred.
Jennifer Mardoll
#71. 'Pretty Little Liars' is very all-consuming of my time, but I guess it's a great problem to have ... there have been other things that have come that were on the table and then were not.
Ian Harding
#72. I wonder why people you have to meet have to be such liars. They lie as if their lives depended on it.
Ryu Murakami
#73. Thus Pyrrhonism is not a sect of people who are persuaded of what they say, but it is a sect of liars.
Antoine Arnauld
#74. 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
#75. People who try to be nice are false. They're liars. You should never force your behavior to be a certain way. You should just be. Maybe it's not going to be nice, but at least it'll be honest.
Veronica Rossi
#76. That such clumsily Soviet efforts are easily laughed off does not defeat their purpose, for their aim is not to persuade but to cast enough doubt to make the truth a matter of opinion. In a world of liars, might not the West be lying, too?
Anonymous
#77. Anyone who claims to be good at lying is obviously bad at lying. Thus - as a writer myself - I cannot comment on whether or not writers are exceptionally good liars, because whatever I said would actually mean its complete opposite.
Chuck Klosterman
#78. Civility is just lying to people about your true feelings. Hiding for personal gain.
Popular people, well, they're just the best liars.
Rick Remender
#79. Your limits are liars, you fears are thieves.
Robin Sharma
#80. Of all liars, the smoothest and most convincing is memory
Harlan Ellison
#81. I feel like - and maybe you're going to think I'm crazy for saying this - 'Vampire Diaries' has crazy fans, 'Pretty Little Liars' has crazy fans, but I swear to you, I have never met crazier fans than 'One Tree Hill's.
Torrey DeVitto
#82. There was a hell for blasphemers. There was a hell for disputers of rightful authority. There were a number of hells for liars. There was probably a hell for little boys who wished their grandmothers were dead. There were more than enough hells to go around.
Terry Pratchett
#83. 'Pretty Little Liars,' you know, it's a teen show that grew to be something bigger. I think you had girls from ages 7 to, like, 20 watching the show, and that was the predominant audience. Then it grew to be for girls, boys, men, women, people who are 7 to 35. I think that's crazy.
Aeriel Miranda
#84. I've said before that the common perception that all good actors should be good liars is exactly the opposite; only bad actors lie when they act.
Rob Lowe
#85. But have you ever overheard two women discussing men? Men are crude liars, comparing their drabs, but women - I'd rather have [an] anatomist dissect me alive than to listen to the things the ladies say about us when they think they are alone.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#86. Intentions are ambitious liars.
Jon Acuff
#87. Golf does strange things to other people, too. It makes liars out of honest men, cheats out of altruists, cowards out of brave men and fools out of everybody.
Milt Gross
#88. The problem with liars is they don't believe anyone is capable of telling the truth.
Eric Walters
#89. Anybody that forms a group, writes songs and releases records and says they don't care if people like them are complete liars.
James Dean Bradfield
#90. Computers don't lie, but liars can compute.
Terry Hayes
#91. It is all too common for caterpillars to become butterflies and then to maintain that in their youth they had been little butterflies. Maturation makes liars of us all.
George E. Vaillant
#92. It is a little-known fact about covert operations that you will spend a lot of time with people you can't really trust. They may be traitors and liars. We call them assets or informants. But mostly, in those days, I called him Zach.
Ally Carter
#93. All writers are liars. They twist events to suit themselves. They make use of their own tragedies to make a better story ... They are terrible people.
Nina Bawden
#94. Look. The world is full of liars, and it's time someone admitted it, shed a light on it, and lightened up about it.
Lauren Handel Zander
#95. I was loved by a team of smart, shrewd, criminally-inclined vigilantes. But I was loved. If I denied that any longer, I was calling them all liars. And if I denied I was worthy of it, I was convincing myself they were delusional and stupid. I wasn't lying to myself anymore. Not about that.
C.D. Reiss
#96. The truth doesn't get you very far on the streets, or in a group home, or even in high school. That's probably why the idea of Liars, Inc. appealed to me. Everybody lies. You might as well get paid for it.
Paula Stokes
#97. I knew that at least a few of the stars I saw were probably gone already, collapsed into nothing. I felt like I was looking at a lie. But I didn't mind. The world makes liars of us all.
Kevin Powers
#98. All marketers are storytellers. Only the losers are liars.
Seth Godin
#99. Thus when we fondly flatter our desires, Our best conceits do prove the greatest liars.
Michael Drayton
#100. Then the liars and swearers are fools, for there are liars and swearers enough to beat the honest men and hang up them.
William Shakespeare
