Memorable Quotes About Liars

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"A liar is a person who tells lies, especially habitually."
Cicero
"Lies require time and energy."
John W. Gardner
"The worst part about being lied to is knowing you weren't worth the truth."
Jean-Paul Sartre
"The truth may hurt for a little while, but a lie hurts forever."
Anonymous
"The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else."
George Bernard Shaw
"To be a good liar, you must have a good memory."
Anonymous
"No one knows how to lie so well as the truth."
Anonymous
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"A lie can be halfway around the world before the truth gets its boots on."
Winston S. Churchill
"The price of being a liar is starting from scratch every time you try to rebuild trust."
Anonymous
"What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your mouth."
Jewish Proverb
"A man is no less a man because he is afraid of the truth."
Charles H. Spurgeon
"No one believes a liar, even when she's telling the truth."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall perish."
Proverbs 19:9
"If you lie to yourself about your abilities, you will never fulfill the potential that is within you."
Anonymous
"Liars need to have a good memory."
Anonymous
"If you're going to lie, at least have the decency to pretend you care."
Anonymous
"The truth has a way of revealing itself."
Reverend Charles B. Smith
"Deceivers are a dime a dozen."
Anonymous
"No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar."
Abraham Lincoln
"The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool."
Stephen King
"The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist."
Charles Baudelaire
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"The worst part about being lied to is knowing you weren’t worth the truth."
Jean-Paul Sartre
"A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut off her hand before it would come to the side of the poor."
Jacqueline Jones
"Lying is done with words and also with silence."
Ángel García Hernando
"The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite."
Tennessee Williams
"A lie can never be safe."
Hannah Arendt
"It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one."
George Washington
"Liars are so good at it; they can turn the truth into a lie."
Edna O'Brien
"The truth always emerges, even if it takes time."
Bertolt Brecht
"There is no such thing as an innocent lie."
Lao Tzu
"The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself."
Augustine of Hippo
"The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn’t said."
Peter Drucker
"If you never lie, you never have to remember anything."
Mark Twain
"You cannot tell a lie without telling a lie to yourself."
Don Miguel Ruiz
"When the truth is replaced by silence, the silence is a lie."
Javier Marías
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"To be honest, to be kind – to earn a little and to spend a little less; to make, upon the whole, a family happy; to let the twenty-four hours be filled up with a time of use; to carry on our work patiently, as if we were destined to live forever; to make our home a place of peace and serenity – this is not a small achievement."
Charlotte Mason
"The truth often hurts, but a lie is like a knife that cuts the heart."
Anonymous
"No one believes a liar, even when he's telling the truth."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"Lies can affect the confidence of people who trusted you."
Anonymous
"Liars are always most disposed to swear."
Victor Hugo
"A single lie destroys a whole reputation for integrity."
Baltasar Gracián
"When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?' "
Don Marquis
"We are all liars; we all have something we are hiding."
Ruth M. S. L. Harris
"The first step in the betrayal of trust is a lie."
Anonymous
"Liars can be very convincing, but ultimately the truth prevails."
Anonymous
"A liar is a thief of souls."
Anonymous
"To be persuasive, we must be believable; to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful."
Edward R. Murrow
"In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit."
Anne Frank
"It is easier to throw stones than to gather them."
Aesop
"At the heart of every lie is a desire to escape the truth."
Anonymous
"A lie can last a lifetime, but the truth will always find a way out."
Anonymous
"Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good."
Plato
"A half-truth is a whole lie."
Yiddish Proverb
"In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
George Orwell
"Dishonesty is the trait of a coward, honesty is the trait of a man."
Anonymous
"A liar is like a person who carefully sets fire to their own house."
Anonymous
"Sometimes the lies you tell are less frightening than the loneliness you might endure if you stopped telling them."
Mason Cooley
"The most important thing is to be honest with yourself."
Unknown
"The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but if he be believed, he must be no longer believed."
George Bernard Shaw
"It's not the lying that bothers me, it's the truth that they think I'm too stupid to know."
Anonymous
"A lie repeated often enough becomes the truth."
Vladimir Lenin
"Liars share with those they lie to a common experience, the experience of falsehood."
Jean-Paul Sartre
"One lie is enough to question all truths."
Anonymous
"The most damaging aspect of lying is that it erodes trust."
Anonymous
"The truth may hurt for a little, but a lie hurts forever."
Anonymous
"When we lie to ourselves, it is a lie that we have to live with."
Anonymous
"Liars are quick to abandon their friends in the hour of need."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"No one believes a liar, even when he tells the truth."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"Deception is a cruel act. It often triggers retaliation in the person being deceived."
Suzanne Collins
"Lies are like scars on your soul. They destroy you."
Anonymous
"A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity."
Baltasar Gracián
"We think we listen, but very rarely do we listen with real understanding, true empathy. Yet listening, of this very special kind, is the root of our human condition."
Carl Rogers
"The worst part of being lied to is knowing you weren't worth the truth."
Anonymous
"A lie can be halfway believable, but it takes strength to accept the truth."
Anonymous
"Lying is done with words, and also with silence."
Adrienne Rich
"Lies are an absence of truth, and there is no truth in a lie."
Anonymous
"Every lie is a kind of murder, for the person we are to ourselves and others."
Susan Sontag
"Truth is powerful and it prevails."
Sojourner Truth
"What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean."
Isaac Newton
"Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority."
Francis Bacon
"Liars can be good and persuasive, but the truth will always come out."
Anonymous
"A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth."
Cicero
"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."
Oscar Wilde
"No one gossips about other people's secret virtues."
Bertrand Russell
"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
Mark Twain
"Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom."
Thomas Jefferson
"Liars need to have good memories."
Alfred Hitchcock
"Once a liar, always a liar."
Anonymous
"A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."
Jonathan Swift
"A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar."
Mark Twain
"People should be honest and straightforward with each other; that is how we honor each other."
Jens Stoltenberg
"The worst part of being lied to is knowing you weren’t worth the truth."
Anonymous
"Honesty pays dividends."
Anonymous
"The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable."
James A. Garfield
"Liars have to be good at inventing lies."
Anonymous
"Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't going away."
Elvis Presley
"No legacy is so rich as honesty."
William Shakespeare
"When in doubt, tell the truth."
Mark Twain
"There are no secrets that time does not reveal."
Jean Racine
"The liar’s punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else."
George Bernard Shaw
"The most interesting people you’ll find are people who don’t care if you know what they’ve done wrong."
Anonymous
"A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent."
William Blake
"People lie, but the truth is always there."
Anonymous
"As a rule, I don’t believe anything that I hear and only half of what I see."
Anonymous
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
Albert Einstein
"Deceivers are often deceived."
Anonymous
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