The 40+ Best and Memorable Liar Quotes

Liar Quotes – We all have encountered a lie or two in our lives. Sometimes, we meet people in our lives that tell lies, and we don’t realize it. There are also moments where we tell our own set of lies for different reasons. Lies also come in different forms depending on the situation and how it’s told. At one point, however, there are people who build up enough lies and end up becoming a liar. Liars come in many forms and are not always easy to spot. You can find no shortage of memorable lines about people who lie and these are some Liar Quotes for different perspectives:

• “A liar is a liar and lives on the lies he tells and dies in a life of lies.”
  – Carl Sandburg
  
• “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
  
• “All liars … lie to protect themselves, to shield their egos from the raw pain of truth.”
  – Aminatta Forna
  
• “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
  
• “A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.”
  – William Shenstone
  
• “The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.”
  – Samuel Butler
  
• “A persistent liar cannot prosper without a powerful memory.”
  – Amit Kalantri
  
• “A storyteller makes up things to help other people; a liar makes up things to help himself.”
  – Daniel Wallace
  
• “Thieves and liars kill indirectly, unintentionally, and with no other weapon than their tongues and malice.”
  – A.E.H. Veenman
  
• “Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.”
  – Aristotle
  
• “The best liars lie with their eyes rather than with their words.”
  – Joanna Scott
  
• “Liars often set their own traps.”
  – Aesop
  
• “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
  
• “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
  
• “The problem with being a liar is you can never believe anyone else.”
  – Chloe Thurlow

More Liar Quotes

• “You can best reward a liar by believing nothing of what he says.”
  – Aristippus
  
• “Neither a fake friend nor a liar can be trusted, with a secret.”
  – Ellen J. Barrier
  
• “I do really believe that, like so many liars, there is a real substratum of truth behind her lies.”
  – Agatha Christie
  
• “I don’t hate Liars. I just disrespect them, because they disrespect themselves in the first place.”
  – Revaz Eristavi
  
• “There is tremendous trauma in the betrayal caused by a perpetual liar as they repeatedly commit psychological abuse.”
  – Cathy Burnham Martin
  
• “I wasn’t sure which was worse – to know you were a liar or to believe your own bullshit.”
  – Eileen Cook
  
• “Pigs are dirty, but I will tell you something dirtier: Liars! Untruth always smells like rotten garbage!”
  – Mehmet Murat ildan
  
• “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
  
• “Once a country is habituated to liars, it takes generations to get the truth back.”
  – Gore Vidal
  
• “People don’t lie to contaminate truth. They lie to pollute their hearts.”
  – Munia Khan
  
• “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
  
• “People lie, cheat and bully one another and then wonder why they’re unhappy.”
  – Marty Rubin
  
• “The trust of the innocent is the liar’s most useful tool.”
  – Stephen King
  
• “Unfortunately in today’s world a liar seems to be more reliable than a truthful honest man.”
  – Munia Khan
  
• “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

Other Lines About Lies

• “Direct lies, small lies, huge lies, and lies of omission… these are all self-serving and sources of self-destruction.”
  – Cathy Burnham Martin
  
• “Lies sound like facts to those who’ve been conditioned to misrecognize the truth.”
  – DaShanne Stokes
  
• “The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.”
  – John Ruskin
  
• “One lie has the power to tarnish a thousand truths.”
  – Al David
  
• “Lying is done with words, and also with silence.”
  – Adrienne Rich
  
• “Lies are like cockroaches, for every one you discover there are many more that are hidden.”
  – Gary Hopkins
  
• “The truly scary thing about undiscovered lies is that they have a greater capacity to diminish us than exposed ones.”
  – Cheryl Hughes
  
• “Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.”
  – Fyodor Dostoevsky
  
• “Lies don’t end relationships the truth does.”
  – Shannon L. Alder
  
• “Screaming and repeating lies makes them neither true nor more believable.”
  – Cathy Burnham Martin
  
• “Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.”
  – Dorothy Allison
  
• “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
  

Read more quotes about negative people with our “Karma Cheating Quotes” and “Two-Faced Fake Family Quotes.”