While most of us have told white lies at some point in our lives, things get much worse when you’re dealing with outright liars. Lies can either destroy the trust you once had in someone or make your life much more difficult.
Benefits of Reading these Liar Quotes?
Being a victim of deception shatters your faith, making it difficult to trust the next time.
The awful feeling of distrust is the same whether you’ve been duped by a:
‣ loved one
‣ boss
‣ business partner
However, you should not let lies change who you are or how you live your life.
If you’ve been taken advantage of, it simply means you’re a trustworthy individual.
You can still maintain your trustworthiness.
These liar quotes will help you understand that people lie for reasons other than you.
Though it may not be as simple as it sounds, the first thing you can do after lying is forgive yourself for being duped.
And, in order to avoid being duped again, never give a known liar the benefit of the doubt.
Learn how to spot a liar and you’ll be one step ahead of the game.
Also, don’t be afraid to confirm what others tell you.
We’ve compiled a list of inspirational, wise, and thought-provoking liar quotes, sayings, and proverbs from various sources over the years.
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Quotes about Liars for When You’ve Been Lied to and Manipulated
1. “Once a country is habituated to liars, it takes generations to get the truth back.” ― Gore Vidal
2. “To know the good from the bad, study a man or woman’s history of actions, not their record of intentions.” ― Suzy Kassem
3. “Never stand in the way of letting God use people’s actions, in order to solve a greater issue in the world.” ― Shannon L. Alder
4. “I don’t hate Liars. I just disrespect them, because they disrespect themselves in the first place.” ― Revaz Eristavi
5. “When you don’t have honesty in love then there is no communication. Honesty is the improvisation of the heart; anything less is a well thought out and rehearsed the script.” ― Shannon L. Alder
6. “People don’t lie to contaminate truth. They lie to pollute their hearts.” ― Munia Khan
7. “You can’t always expect people to apply your wisdom when they didn’t use wisdom before they found themselves knee deep in their version of justice.” ― Shannon L. Alder
8. “The problem with being a liar is you can never believe anyone else.” ― Chloe Thurlow
9. “Only fools and liars claim to know everything because the fool thinks all that he knows is everything and the liar knows there is no sufficient data to know everything” ― Nyona Matende
10. “No one believes a liar. Even when she’s telling the truth.” ― Sara Shepard
Liar Quotes for When You’ve Been Deceived
11. “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
12. “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
13. “There is tremendous trauma in the betrayal caused by a perpetual liar as they repeatedly commit psychological abuse.” ― Cathy Burnham Martin
14. “In politics, you learn how to say A mean to say B, in wisdom you learn how to say A and keep saying that.” ― Auliq Ice
15. “Before you call yourself a Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu or any other theology, learn to be human first.” ― Shannon L. Alder
16. “Some people are in such utter darkness that they will burn you just to see a light. Try not to take it personally.” ― Kamand Kojouri
17. “Truth is as straight as an arrow, while a lie swivels like a snake.” ― Suzy Kassem
18. “Be careful… not all are what they seem. Some people pretend to be the beach, but they’re actually quicksand.” ― Steve Maraboli
19. “The ability to lie, paired with unaccountability, has made a near infinite amount of liabilities.” ― Justin K. McFarlane
20. “I wasn’t sure which was worse – to know you were a liar or to believe your own bullshit.” ― Eileen Cook
21. “Lies sound like facts to those who’ve been conditioned to misrecognize the truth.” ― DaShanne Stokes
22. “Pigs are dirty, but I will tell you something dirtier: Liars! Untruth always smells like rotten garbage!” ― Mehmet Murat ildan
23. “But he that sows lie in the end shall not lack a harvest, and soon he may rest from toil indeed, while others reap and sow in his stead.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien
24. “When people don’t tell you the truth what they really are saying is they don’t value you or their relationship with you enough, to be honest.” ― Shannon L. Alder
25. “I don’t degrade anyone, but a liar and a person, who doesn’t keep his or her words, has not any value in my eyes.” ― Ehsan Sehgal
26. “Lies are like cockroaches, for every one you discover there are many more that are hidden.” ― Gary Hopkins
27. “Stop falling for those who won’t raise you up in the future.” ― Michael Bassey Johnson
28. “When your ears hear one thing, but your eyes see another…use your brain.” ― Frank Sonnenberg
29. “Stupidity is to have amnesia over your own faults when the person you hate makes theirs.” ― Shannon L. Alder
30. “One lie has the power to tarnish a thousand truths.” ― Al David
Liar Quotes to Help You Maintain Your Trustworthiness
31. “Direct lies, small lies, huge lies, and lies of omission… these are all self-serving and sources of self-destruction.” ― Cathy Burnham Martin
32. “Neither a fake friend nor a liar can be trusted, with a secret.” ― Ellen J. Barrier
33. “Adding more bull to bull yields bigger bull.” ― Cathy Burnham Martin
34. “The way to happiness is by the truth. Seek to be true in all things and you will have a foundation to build your future.” ― Shannon L. Alder
35. “A coward talks to everyone but YOU.” ― Shannon L. Alder
36. “Accepting fraud from our leaders means accepting fraud in our personal lives.” ― DaShanne Stokes
37. “Thieves and liars kill indirectly, unintentionally, and with no other weapon than their tongues and malice.” ― A.E.H. Veenman
38. “Lies don’t end relationships the truth does.” ― Shannon L. Alder
35. “I do really believe that, like so many liars, there is a real substratum of truth behind her lies.” ― Agatha Christie
36. “Screaming and repeating lies makes them neither true nor more believable.” ― Cathy Burnham Martin
Thought Provoking Liar Quotes
37. “He, of course, is a liar, but that doesn’t really matter because, if you know liars are liars, it comes to the same thing.” ― Agatha Christie
38. “When God takes out the trash, don’t go digging back through it. Trust Him.” ― Amaka Imani Nkosazana
39. “People lie, cheat and bully one another and then wonder why they’re unhappy.” ― Marty Rubin
40. “When your lover is a liar, you and he have a lot in common, you’re both lying to you!” ― Susan Forward
41. “Hypocrites get offended by the truth.” ― Jess C. Scott
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42. “Unfortunately, in today’s world a liar seems to be more reliable than a truthful, honest man.” ― Munia Khan
43. “Warns, lies, liars, and mysteries everything in one place. What’s more awesome than that??? Better check out Blindspot!” ― Deyth Banger
44. “People wear a mask of a lie, so they look attractive, so be careful.” ― Muhammad Saqib
45. “We reveal most about ourselves when we speak about others.” ― Kamand Kojouri
46. “The liar was the hottest to defend his veracity, the coward his courage, the ill-bred his gentlemanliness, and the cad his honor.” ― Margaret Mitchell
More Quotes and Sayings about Liars
47. “Once you place that crown of liar on your head, you can take it off again, but it leaves a stain for all time.” – Terry Goodkind
48. “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
49. “If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.” – Adolf Hitler
50. “I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
51. “The trust of the innocent is the liar’s most useful tool.” – Stephen King
52. “The most confused we ever get is when we’re trying to convince our heads of something our heart knows is a lie.” – Karen Marie Moning
53. “A good liar knows that the most efficient lie is always a truth that has had a key piece removed from it.” – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
54. “Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
55. “A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.” – Aesop
56. “A liar is a liar and lives on the lies he tells and dies in a life of lies.” – Carl Sandburg
57. “The truly scary thing about undiscovered lies is that they have a greater capacity to diminish us than exposed ones.” – Cheryl Hughes
58. “Hard truths can be dealt with, triumphed over, but lies will destroy your soul.” – Patricia Briggs
59. “Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.” – Fyodor Dostoevsky
60. “If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.” – W. Somerset Maugham
61. “Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.” – Dorothy Allison
Liar Quotes to Help You Spot them
62. “No relationship is perfect and people who say they don’t argue are either liars or biting their tongues all the time.” –Kym Marsh
63. “Regrets? I think everyone has regrets, and people who say they haven’t are either liars… or narcissists.” –Lee Radziwill
64. “Bands that say they don’t care about how their records sell are liars.” –Brandon Flowers
65. “The best liars lie with their eyes rather than with their words.” –Joanna Scott
66. “I think all actors are professional liars.” –Sidharth Malhotra
67. “The world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars and the selfish hide in high places.” –Bryant H. McGill
68. “Liars need to have good memories.” –Algernon Sidney
69. “He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.” –Charles Peguy
70. “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
71. “Liars are always most disposed to swear.” –Vittorio Alfieri
Liar Quotes and Sayings from Famous People
72. “The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.” – George Carlin
73. “Over time, any deception destroys intimacy, and without intimacy couples cannot have true and lasting love.” – Bonnie Eaker Weil
74. I never lie,” I said offhand. “At least not to those I don’t love. – Anne Rice
75. “When a man is penalized for honesty he learns to lie.” – Criss Jami
76. “If you don’t want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.” – Bruce Lee
77. “Even a tiny bit of deceit is dishonorable when it’s used for selfish or cowardly reasons.” – Jeanne Birdsall
78. “When people cheat in any arena, they diminish themselves-they threaten their own self-esteem and their relationships with others by undermining the trust they have in their ability to succeed and in their ability to be true.” – Cheryl Hughes
79. “It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.” – George Washington
80. “If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.” – Mark Twain
81. “The mistake ninety-nine percent of humanity made, as far as facts could see, was being ashamed of what they were; lying about it, trying to be somebody else.” – J.K. Rowling
Short Liar Quotes You Should Know
82. “Lying is done with words, and also with silence.” — Adrienne Rich
83. “While photographs may not lie, liars may photograph.” — Lewis Hine
84. “Liars are always ready to take oaths.” — Vittorio Alfieri
85. “Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are your own fears.” — Rudyard Kipling
86. “The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.” — John Ruskin
87. “The liar’s punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.” — George Bernard Shaw
88. “A storyteller makes up things to help other people; a liar makes up things to help himself.” — Daniel Wallace
89. “Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived.” — Sissela Bok
90. “Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind.” — Austin O’Malley
91. “No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar.” — Abraham Lincoln
Quotes about Liars that Will Make You Laugh
92. “A liar should have a good memory.” ― T.M. Logan
93. “You do not need to defeat a liar, a liar’s lie is itself his or her defeat.” ― Ehsan Sehgal
94. “The one who most seems like a liar is the one who tells a bold-face truth.” ― Runa Pigden
95. “Some people sometimes kiss and tell; some sometimes tell without having kissed.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
96. “A persistent liar cannot prosper without a powerful memory.” ― Amit Kalantri
97. “Be bad, but at least don’t be a liar, a deceiver!” ― Leo Tolstoy
98. “Denial can be beautiful. But only when you’re a fantastic liar.” ― Kim Holden
99. “Whoever said that childhood is the happiest time of your life is a liar, or a fool.” ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón
101. “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
102. “Sometimes your mind and your heart want different things, and you know your heart is a liar.” ― Surya Ra
Quotes from Liars that Show They Can’t Be Trusted
103. “All liars … lie to protect themselves, to shield their egos from the raw pain of truth.” ― Aminatta Forna
104. “You can best reward a liar by believing nothing of what he says.” ― Aristippus
105. “A hero must be honorable, must have honor. And you can’t have honor if you’re a liar. There is no honor in lying.” ― Jesse Ventura
106. “Liars often set their own traps.” ― Aesop
107. “A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.” ― William Shenstone
108. “Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.” ― Aristotle
109. “Liars are the cause of all the sins and crimes in the world.” ― Epictetus
110. “The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!” ― Tennessee Williams
111. “The American people are tired of liars and people who pretend to be something they’re not.” ― Hillary Clinton
112. “The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.” ― Samuel Butler
Liar Quotes for Self Protection
113. “I don’t tolerate liars. When somebody lies to me, that’s really, like, just unbearable.” — John Lydon
114. “I have one major problem with the internet: It’s full of liars. There doesn’t seem to be any way to answer to people lying about you.” — John Lydon
115. “Denying the undeniable just makes you sound like a fool as well as a liar.” — Ally Carter
116. “Of course, the liar often imagines that he does no harm as long as his lies go undetected.” — Sam Harris
117. “The liar wants to be believed, but lying undermines the foundation for credibility.” — Randal Marlin
118. “Conquer a liar with truth.” — Gautama Buddha
119. “Some liars are so expert they deceive themselves.” — Austin O’Malley
120. “Liars seldom believe anyone else.” — James Cook
121. “Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.” — Bergen Evans
122. “A liar is not believed even though he tell the truth.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Final Thoughts on Liar Quotes
That concludes our liar quotes! We hope you found them interesting.
Some of history’s most dangerous people have used dishonesty and deception to justify their actions.
While the stakes in your personal life may not be as high, arming yourself to deal with dishonest people is one of the most powerful ways to empower yourself.
These quotes can help you a great deal on this journey of empowerment. Also, share this quotes to friends and love once to help them get closer to the truth and further from the dishonest.
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