Best 539 quotes in «liars quotes» category

You should never trust a liar so you should never trust a man of honor. Those two are the worst of mankind.

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.

A convinced man differs from a prejudiced man as an honest man from a liar.

Acting is all about being truthful. I'm really bad at lying. I'm one of the worst liars I know.

Acting is telling the truth under imaginary circumstances. I cannot think of a worse way to describe acting. Also, I'm the worst liar ever.

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.

A good liar must have a good memory. Kissinger is a stupendous liar with a remarkable memory.

A guy said to me one time, something really profound, and it's so simple. It's that depression lies. It's a liar and you have to shut it down. There is nothing that alleviates it more than going out and doing something for someone else. It's almost like instant healing. Get away from yourself. People can't even get out of bed and it gets really severe. I've never been at that stage. Everyone goes through low and high and low and high and some people are blessed to be created on an even keel all the way through - but not me.

A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.

A liar is always lavish of oaths. [Fr., Un menteur est toujours prodigue de serments.]

A liar is a man who does now know how to deceive, a flatterer one who only deceives fools: he who knows how to make skilful use of the truth, and understands its eloquence, can alone pride himself in cleverness.

A liar would be brave toward God, while he is a coward toward men; for a lie faces God, and shrinks from man.

A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.

A liar is a liar and lives on the lies he tells and dies in a life of lies.

A lie cannot live.

A liar did ought to have a good memory.

A liar goes in fine clothes, a liar goes in rags, a liar is a liar, clothes or no clothes.

A liar is not believed even though he tell the truth.

All blues singers are great liars.

A liar is full of oaths.

A liar lies to others. A fool lies to herself.

A lie is real; it aims at success. A liar is a realist.

All I cared was that she had never lied. She was honest in a world just the opposite, and a cool oasis in my life. She was who she said she was, and everything Sophia, my mother, the pathologically manipulative liar, had never been.

A liar freely gives his oath

All men are born truthful and die liars.

All Marketers are liars tell stories.

All liars ... lie to protect themselves, to shield their egos from the raw pain of truth.

All stories are true,” Skarpi said. “But this one really happened, if that’s what you mean.” He took another slow drink, then smiled again, his bright eyes dancing. “More or less. You have to be a bit of a liar to tell a story the right way. Too much truth confuses the facts. Too much honesty makes you sound insincere.

All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life. Hence the notion found early in ancient thought that all poets are liars. And from the true lies of poetry trickled out a question. What really connects words and things?

All politicians are bores and liars and fakes. I talk to people.

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.

All pitchers are liars or crybabies.

A lot of people will say, "Oh, I got into acting because I wanted to explore my craft." They're a bunch of liars, unless they're Sean Penn, DeNiro or my dad. For the rest of us it was all about chicks and money.

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.

A lot of musicians are good cooks, and a lot of cooks are musicians, but I think that may just be a result of the creative impulse finding several means of expression. Probably an equivalent number are visual artists, woodworkers or compulsive liars.

A lover's a liar, To himself he lies, The truthful are loveless, Like oysters their eyes!

A man who claims to be fearless is an idiot or a liar.

A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.

And I, love, am a pathological liar.

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.

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.

A man who says he feels no fear is either a fool or a liar.

And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.

And I'm the worst liar of all time.

And they'll vote for me because I'm the best liar, because I do it honestly, with a certain finesse. They know that lies and truth are very close, and that something beautiful rests between.

Anybody who claims to read the entire paper every day is either the world's fastest reader or the world's biggest liar.

Anybody that forms a group, writes songs and releases records and says they don't care if people like them are complete liars.

A person who has no secrets is a liar. We always fold ourselves away from others just enough to preserve a secret or two, something that we cannot share without destroying our inner landscape.

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.

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.