Liar Quotes

A liar ought to have a good memory. (Quintilian)
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite! View quote
Tennessee Williams
It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar. View quote
Jerome K. Jerome
The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)
Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love. View quote
William Shakespeare
I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth. View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
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. View quote
Tim Allen
Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth. Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar. View quote
J. Edgar Hoover
A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar. View quote
Mark Twain
A liar is always lavish of oaths. (Pierre Corneille)
When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer. View quote
Isaac Bashevis Singer
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth. View quote
Jean Cocteau
Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen. View quote
Maimonides
The truthful man is usually a liar. View quote
Alfred Nobel
If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth. View quote
Logan Pearsall Smith
The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow. View quote
Billy Sunday
Anybody who says they are a good liar obviously is not, because any legitimately savvy liar would always insist they're honest about everything. View quote
Chuck Klosterman
Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A good liar must have a good memory. Kissinger is a stupendous liar with a remarkable memory. View quote
Christopher Hitchens
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)
An experienced, industrious, ambitious, and often quite picturesque liar. View quote
Mark Twain
A storyteller makes up things to help other people; a liar makes up things to help himself. View quote
Daniel Wallace
There is no such thing as a good writer and a bad liar. View quote
Amy Bloom
I'm a bad liar; I don't know what to say backstage. View quote
Uta Hagen
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