Quotes About Lies
Right from when we were much younger as toddlers we’ve always been told that lies are bad but that has never stopped people from telling lies even to those they care about, that’s why we have this huge compilation of quotes for lies and liars. These quotes about lies were compiled so you could use them on people who tell lies to you and show them how much of a disappointment they are not just to others but even to themselves.
These amazing quotes for liars were carefully compiled from famous and important people through out history whom have been lied to either by a colleague or a close ally. Read them and be inspired by these great minds who were lied to so you’ll know how to handle liars in your life using these quotes for lies that show you are disappointed.
The following quotes for lies and liars are compiled alongside whoever they originate from so you appreciate the wisdom packed in them.
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Quotes For Liars
- Cheating and lying aren’t struggles, they’re reasons to break up. – Patti Callahan Henry
- If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself. – W. Somerset Maugham
- At times to be silent is to lie. You will win because you have enough brute force. But you will not convince. For to convince you need to persuade. And in order to persuade you would need what you lack: Reason and Right. – Miguel de Unamuno
- Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others. – Fyodor Dostoevsky
- 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
- Hard truths can be dealt with, triumphed over, but lies will destroy your soul. – Patricia Briggs
- Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves. – Sara Shepard
- The truly scary thing about undiscovered lies is that they have a greater capacity to diminish us than exposed ones. – Cheryl Hughes
- One lie has the power to tarnish a thousand truths. – Al David
- When a man is penalized for honesty he learns to lie. – Criss Jami
- Cheating and lying aren’t struggles, they’re reasons to break up. – Patti Callahan Henry
- To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend. – Jacques Derrida
- Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies. – Dorothy Allison
- When truth is replaced by silence, the silence is a lie. – Yevgeny Yevtushenko
- Anything is better than lies and deceit! – Leo Tolstoy
- You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time. – Abraham Lincoln
- A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies. – Alfred Tennyson
- No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar. – Abraham Lincoln
- 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
- The rules are simple: they lie to us, we know they’re lying, they know we know they’re lying, but they keep lying to us, and we keep pretending to believe them. – Elena Gorokhova
- Integrity is a bugger, it really is. Lying can get you into difficulties, but to really wind up in the crappers try telling nothing but the truth. – David Mitchell
- There’s a tipping point with lies, a point where you’ve said something so many times that it feels truer than the truth. – Holly Black
- Truth is as straight as an arrow, while a lie swivels like a snake. – Suzy Kassem
- The slickest way in the world to lie is to tell the right amount of truth at the right time-and then shut up. – Robert A. Heinlein
- Lie until even you believe it – that’s the real secret of lying – Holly Black
- There is nothing worse for the lying soul than the mirror of reality. – Steve Maraboli
- He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time. – Thomas Jefferson
- Stop lying to yourself. When we deny our own truth, we deny our own potential. – Steve Maraboli
- It seemed there was no end at all to the lies a person could tell, once they got started. – Kim Edwards
- Lying is the most fun a woman can have without taking her clothes off. – Natalie Portman
- Lying is easy. But it’s lonely. – Victoria Schwab
- Integrity is a bugger, it really is. Lying can get you into difficulties, but to really wind up in the crappers try telling nothing but the truth. – David Mitchell
- I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you. – Friedrich Nietzsche
- No one believes a liar. Even when she’s telling the truth. – Sara Shepard
- If you don’t want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today. – Bruce Lee
- Even a tiny bit of deceit is dishonorable when it’s used for selfish or cowardly reasons. – Jeanne Birdsall
- 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
- It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one. – George Washington
- If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything. – Mark Twain
- The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept. – George Carlin
- Over time, any deception destroys intimacy, and without intimacy couples cannot have true and lasting love. – Bonnie Eaker Weil
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- I never lie,” I said offhand. “At least not to those I don’t love. – Anne Rice
- Lying is wrong. When you tell a lie for the sake of sparing someone’s feelings it is not suddenly right, but it is compassionate. And is not compassion a form of love? Love—the greatest of all virtues! So, my darling, I do wrong for you. I lie that you might feel loved. – Richelle E. Goodrich
- Sometimes you lie to deceive people. Sometimes you lie because you need the lie to become the truth. – Rick Riordan
- I suppose we all lie to ourselves sometimes. – Cassandra Clare
- There was a distinction between lying and telling half-truths, but it was a very narrow one. – Alexander McCall Smith
- Telling one lie almost always requires another, and before the storyteller knows it, they will be caught inside of their own web. – Jenna Alatari
- The more you believe, the more you’ll be leaving you, when what you believed turns out to be just lies. Or unjust lies. Or any lies, anyway. – Will Advise
- Lies rob us of our trust and we project our untrustworthiness onto everyone around us. Have you ever noticed that the innocent are very trusting? They neither lie nor hold other people’s lies against them. Liars, on the other hand, see sabotage everywhere. – Donna Goddard
- Sometimes lying is a real pleasure. – Holly Black
- Most promises were broken before they were made. – Craig D. Lounsbrough
- It’s difficult to honest with others when you continue lying to yourself. – Carlos Walla
- Lying is done with words, and also with silence. – Adrienne Rich
- Liars are always most disposed to swear. – Vittorio Alfieri
- The essence of lying is in deception, not in words. – John Ruskin
- He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers. – Charles Peguy
- 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
- Liars are the cause of all the sins and crimes in the world. – Epictetus
- Liars are always ready to take oaths. – Vittorio Alfieri
- A lie is enough to prove you are a liar. Lies help people to forget about the things you have done in the past and remain constant for whole future as doubt. – Nishan Panwar
- The trust of the innocent is the liar’s most useful tool. – Stephen King
- I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie. – Michel de Montaigne
- We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to them. – Samuel Butler
- It was hard to live normally when you were constantly pretending you didn’t see what was going on in front of your face. – Cassandra Clare
- There were lies we told to save ourselves, and then there were lies we told to rescue others. What counted more, the mistruth, or the greater good? – Jodi Picoult
- A storyteller makes up things to help other people; a liar makes up things to help himself. – Daniel Wallace
- The more you defend a lie, the angrier you become. – Mitch Albom
- Lies have expiry dates but the truth never expires – Oche Otorkpa
- If what he said was the truth, it broke her heart. If what he said was a lie, it was broken anyway. – Christine Feehan
- The tongue may hide the truth but the eyes, never! – Mikhail Bulgakov
- Our lie is like a cancer that’s spread to every single area of our lives. – Simone Elkeles
- There are different ways to be confused about how someone’s disappointed you. Some lie about the future because they wanted to forget the past. But some will lie about the past because they think it will give you both a future. – Laura Dave
- Lies can sound awfully pretty when a girl is in love with the person telling them. – Gabrielle Zevin
- Given a choice between life and death, choose life. Given a choice between right and wrong, choose what’s right. And given a choice between a terrible truth and a beautiful lie, choose the truth every time. – Mira Grant
- The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul. – E.M. Forster
- That is the curse of lying. Once you place that crown of the liar upon your head, you can take it off again, but it leaves a stain for all time. – Terry Goodkind
- A liar is always lavish of oaths. – Pierre Corneille
- The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie. – Ann Landers
- I became good at pretending. I became so good that after a while the lines blurred between my truth and fiction. And sometimes, when I did a really good job of pretending, I even fooled myself. – Ruta Sepetys
- Because even if the lie is beautiful, the truth is what you face in the end. – Lauren DeStefano
- It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived. – Rene Descartes
- We lie the loudest when we lie to ourselves. – Eric Hoffer
- I’d rather hear an ugly truth, rather than an obscure lie. – Ana Monnar
- The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head. – Terry Pratchett
- The lies we tell other people are nothing to the lies we tell ourselves. – Derek Landy
- Lying is done with words, and also with silence. – Adrienne Rich
The above huge list of quotes for liars aren’t the only quotes these is for when we are told lies, because everyone of us has at one time in our lives thought something an original idea when we were told lies, but these quotes mostly capture those of famous and popular intellectuals. You could always add your own quotes for liars which you coined all by yourself. Don’t forget to share these quotes to your family friends who are interested in quotes like the ones compiled here.
