Liar Quotes

1. “The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.”

2. “No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.”

3. “The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!”

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

5. “To a liar, the most dangerous individual is the person who catches lies but doesn't say anything about it. Then the liar isn't sure which lies are compromised.”

6. “The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.”

7. “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.”

8. “Anyone who said he wasn't afraid during the civil rights movement was either a liar or without imagination. I was scared all the time. My hands didn't shake but inside I was shaking.”

9. “The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.”

10. “A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.”

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

12. “A liar should have a good memory.”

13. “Honesty is of God and dishonesty of the devil; the devil was a liar from the beginning.”

14. “Thank you, horseradish, for being neither a radish nor a horse. What you are is a liar food.”

15. “Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love.”

16. “It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.”

17. “Success has always been a great liar.”

18. “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.”

19. “If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.”

20. “Nostalgia is a seductive liar.”

21. “The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.”

22. “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.”

23. “I'd rather not have anything than be a liar.”

24. “Sometimes the point isn't to make people believe a lie - it's to make people fear the liar.”

25. “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.”

26. “I'm a lot of things but not a liar or a phony, even when I know it's in my best interest to be.”

27. “My days, my years, my life has seen up and downs, lights and darknesses. If I wrote only and continually of the 'light' and never mentioned the other, then as an artist, I would be a liar.”

28. “Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.”

29. “When you're a liar, a person of low moral fortitude, really any explanation you need to be true can be true. Especially if you're smart enough. You can figure out a way to justify anything.”

30. “A liar is always lavish of oaths.”

31. “To be a liar, you've got to have a great memory, and I don't have a memory.”

32. “I change my mind a lot. I usually don't agree with what I say very much. I'm an awful liar.”

33. “There are people who cannot forget, as neither do I, the lesson of the years of the Indochina War. Which was, first, that the state is capable of being a murderer. A mass murderer, and a conspirator and a liar.”

34. “Trump is unloved in his own house. A figure of ridicule, a theatrical creation, he is almost sympathetic. He was told by the greedy and the outright stupid that he would make a swell president. The Liar's Paradox has spun out of control, with liars lying to a liar who believed the lie. What would that be called? Fox News, I think.”

35. “If he doesn't follow through with actions, he's either selfish or a liar. Neither makes him sound like The One, does it?”

36. “A writer of fiction is really… a congenital liar who invents from his own knowledge or that of other men.”

37. “Show me a man who wouldn't give it all up for Emma Stone, and I'll show you a liar.”

38. “'Pathological liar' is absolutely the toughest individual to deal with as a psychiatrist. Because you can't take anything they say at face value. And you can't, you know, fill in their personality. You don't know what's real and what's not.”

39. “You can criticize me. You can crucify me. You can love me. You can hate me. Just don't make the mistake of calling me inauthentic, because you'd be a damn liar.”

40. “Do you know what 'meteorologist' means in English? It means liar.”

41. “I can smell a liar like a fart in a lift!”

42. “The truthful man is usually a liar.”

43. “The slaveholders are terrible for promising to give you this or that, or such and such a privilege, if you will do thus and so, and when the time of fulfillment comes, and one claims the promise, they, forsooth, recollect nothing of the kind; and you are, like as not, taunted with being a liar.”

44. “I have been known for some time as a person who speaks the truth and speaks it strongly. I have always called a liar a liar and a hypocrite a hypocrite.”

45. “Men should pledge themselves to nothing; for reflection makes a liar of their resolution.”

46. “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.”

47. “Trump has learned over his long career as a lying liar who lies that none of his stories have to be true.”

48. “Trump has emphatically denied ties to Russia - a claim refuted by his Twitter feed and a cursory Google search. Putin says his government had nothing to do with the hack of the DNC computers, even though it carelessly left a trail of crumbs tracing back to his intelligence services. The cunning liar is exploiting the blundering one.”

49. “Everybody is always like, 'You must be a really good liar,' and no, I'm actually a truth teller, and I'm telling someone else's truth. If I'm lying, then I'm not doing my job correctly.”

50. “Don't be righteous and a liar at the same time - I have a problem with that.”

51. “For me, the facts in anything are always secondary. You don't lie convincingly with the truth. You lie convincingly with being a good liar.”

52. “If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.”

53. “I would be a liar, a hypocrite, or a fool - and I'm not any of those - to say that I don't write for the reader. I do. But for the reader who hears, who really will work at it, going behind what I seem to say. So I write for myself and that reader who will pay the dues.”

54. “Show me someone who has never made a mistake in their life, and I'll show you a liar. It happens.”

55. “President Assad, I worked with. I know him reasonably well, met with him a few times, and he's a liar.”

56. “I think Ralph Nader is the biggest liar in American politics when he said it didn't matter who was president.”

57. “I love women, but I feel like you can't trust some of them. Some of them are liars, you know? Like I was in the park and I met this girl, she was cute and she had a dog. And I went up to her, we started talking. She told me her dog's name. Then I said, 'Does he bite?' She said, 'No.' And I said, 'Oh yeah? Then how does he eat?' Liar.”

58. “A liar often smiles subtly while telling a lie; it's an unconscious expression of his delight in getting away with a whopper.”

59. “If you have the ability to convince somebody of something that you don't necessarily think is the case, it's a valuable asset. Not that I'm, like, a pathological liar, but we spend most of the day not fully being honest, you know?”

60. “Nobody has a right to call me or the prime minister a thief and a liar.”

61. “I am what I am and I'm a horrible liar. I can't do it. I'm just very candid.”

62. “The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow.”

63. “I was the biggest liar for no reason, and then as I got older, I thought, 'Why am I lying to everybody?' I would hear other people lie and be like, 'You sound so stupid.' So then I would just change my lies. The only person I lie to is my little sister, when I steal her clothes.”

64. “Nature, reason, and Christianity recognize no other. Pride may say Nay; but Pride was always a liar, and a great hater of the truth.”

65. “To be able to write a play a man must be sensitive, imaginative, naive, gullible, passionate; he must be something of an imbecile, something of a poet, something of a liar, something of a damn fool.”

66. “I once called the head of a network a liar. In hindsight, I should have called him an incompetent liar.”

67. “Anyone who says they're not afraid at the time of a hurricane is either a fool or a liar, or a little bit of both.”

68. “Show me an actor who doesn't want to be famous, and I'll show you a liar. Later, you realise that there's more to it than just the acquisition of fame, and money and girls. But that is what drives them and was what drove me, initially.”

69. “It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.”

70. “One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life.”

71. “People assume actors are born liars, but I'd argue the actor's job is to tell the truth. And I've realised I'm not a good liar.”

72. “I'm a really rotten liar. Generally, if I've tried to pull off a lie, it hasn't worked out to my advantage.”

73. “I was bad, but I was one of the kids that never got caught. If anyone ever knew I did something, it was because I told them. 'Cause I'm a really good liar, so I end up snitching on myself.”

74. “Canelo, he is not a champion. He is a liar who has no respect for the sport of boxing or its fans.”

75. “I consider myself someone who takes a lot of beauty risks, and I've realized what I liar I am. I change my hair a lot, from blue to blonde to bald, but I'm trying to branch out a little more with makeup.”

76. “I was presented as a con and a fraud and a liar. I think some of the treatment was pretty cruel.”

77. “What is it in people, or just in people like me, that would rather let a lie go by, would rather wish it away or minimize it, than point it out and cause the liar embarrassment?”

78. “I would describe myself as a tallish, shy, middle-aged man who equally loves his work and his freedom. And a good liar!”

79. “Nobody could pile on the applesauce like Mickey. He was the best liar in the world - well, Frank Sinatra can tell a good story, too, but I don't believe he was ever unfaithful to me.”

80. “When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.”

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

82. “It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory.”

83. “The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.”

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

85. “I knew when I grew up, I always wanted to be a liar, and if you're in television, you're lying because you're just pretending to be yourself much like I'm doing now.”

86. “I'd be a liar if I said I had a normal family.”

87. “Anybody who says they are a good liar obviously is not, because any legitimately savvy liar would always insist they're honest about everything.”

88. “I'm a bad liar; I don't know what to say backstage.”

89. “I am such a bad liar. I would like to lie, though.”

90. “I would be a liar if I said it wouldn't be lovely and soothing - that's the word - to have a hit single or a hit album.”

91. “I was a good liar as a child.”

92. “He never admitted anything, even on his deathbed. He was a deluded liar. If it weren't for my father, I don't think I would be so open. So that's a huge blessing.”

93. “I believe I am a person with unusual talents. I think I'd be a liar or stupid if I were to deny that.”

94. “I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life.”

95. “'Let God be true but every man a liar' is the language of true faith.”

96. “The three-year-old who lies about taking a cookie isn't really a liar after all. He simply can't control his impulses. He then convinces himself of a new truth and, eager for your approval, reports the version that he knows will make you happy.”

97. “Let every man be true and every god a liar.”

98. “I'm getting better now, but I used to be incredibly awkward with girls. I think any guy who says 'I've never had an awkward moment with a girl' is a liar.”

99. “It is cycling as a professional sport that represents the problem. It can transform someone into a liar.”

100. “I like women, but you can't always trust them. Some of them are big liars, like this one woman I met who had a dog. I asked her her dog's name and then I asked, 'Does he bite?' and she said, 'No.' And I said, 'So how does he eat?' Liar!”

101. “As a child I was a great liar. Fortunately my mother liked my lies. I promised her marvelous things.”

102. “Most children - I know I did when I was a kid - fantasize another set of parents. Or fantasize no parents. They don't tell their real parents about that - you don't want to tell Mom and Dad. Kids lead a very private life. And I was a typical child, I think. I was a liar.”

103. “There was a scene cut out of 'Big Fat Liar' (2002) where I had to wear a dress. This may sound kind of weird, but I really enjoyed shooting that scene.”

104. “I've earned all these years on my face. I don't want to be a liar if in five or 10 years I do get some Botox, but needles in the face scare me, so I don't really know if I am ever going to do that.”

105. “Let me tell you this, if I had wanted to have a library of audio and videotapes of Bill Clinton, I could have had that. And after I was accused of being a liar, I wished that I had of.”

106. “I have never lied about my relationship with Bill Clinton. The only proven liar, at this point, and the only admitted liar, is Bill Clinton; not Gennifer Flowers, not Kathleen Willey, not Paula Jones and not Monica Lewinsky, at this point. He is the only proven liar.”

107. “Look at the coded language the Right is using against President Barack Obama. Openly calling him a liar in Congress, saying he is 'not a Christian, he was not born here, he is not one of us.' That makes addressing such issues trickier for the first African-American in the White House.”

108. “It is vital that there is a narrator figure whom people believe. That's why I never do commercials. If I started saying that margarine was the same as motherhood, people would think I was a liar.”

109. “I'm not a liar.”

110. “I'm a really bad liar.”

111. “Growing up with three brothers and three sisters, I was the storyteller of the family… what my mother called 'The Liar.'”

112. “I don't think there's anything they can say about me that I haven't said about myself already. And I would be an absolute total liar, and my fans would not respect me, if I said that my life and my marriage are perfect. But we absolutely love each other; we have fun together - it's great.”

113. “Hey, I fool the camera. I'm a liar, a magician.”

114. “Well, I think any actor can probably identify with being a professional liar. You don't always look at yourself that way, but I know a lot of days I do.”

115. “I think anybody who bets on horses and says they win is probably a liar.”

116. “I think I was probably always a liar; I just get paid for it now.”

117. “I'm see-through. And I'm the worst liar of all time.”

118. “Let me get you to understand I don't bully anybody. I stand up for what I believe in and I'm very honest and I always tell the truth. I'm not a liar, I'm not manipulative and I don't stab you in your back because I will stab you in your chest.”

119. “I'm more of an exaggerator than a liar.”

120. “I must be true to myself within my music or I would be a liar.”

121. “I love reviews. Anybody who tells you they don't read reviews is a liar.”

122. “I'm a really bad liar. My mom finds out every time, especially now that she's got Facebook.”

123. “I'm a pretty bad liar, and I'm not very good at keeping secrets.”

124. “The day Dick Cheney is going to run for president, I'll kill myself. All we need is one more liar.”

125. “You have two choices with Obama. You either believe that he is a man of Christ… or you think he's a liar. And I'm surprised by the number of atheist free thinkers that support Obama, and their argument is essentially, 'He's lying about being religious 'cause you have to do that to get elected.' It's a horrible reason to like somebody.”

126. “I was a terrific liar as a child, and I believe my lies. So it's a natural step into acting.”

127. “After thousands of hours of news coverage, we have learned that Hillary is a liar and Barack is a terrorist or something.”

128. “I'm the worst liar in the world.”

129. “I get 100 e-mails a day from Americans who say, 'What you're doing is cool - can we work for you?' From Germans, I also get 100 e-mails a day, saying, 'You fat pig!' or 'You're a liar and a criminal!' I'm trying to change this.”

130. “I do show violence as entertainment. Clearly, I'd be a liar if I said I didn't.”

131. “Various people have explained why Henry Kissinger is a bad choice to run an investigation into what went wrong on Sept. 11. He's a liar. He's an apologist for corrupt regimes.”

132. “My integrity had been called into question; I was being called a liar, and I am not a liar. And I just think it is time that we stop viewing public figures as fair game.”

133. “I don't think I'm an intentional liar, but I'm a little bit of an exaggerator sometimes. If I'm exaggerating, and the journalist exaggerates on top of that, then we end up in funny territory.”

134. “I'm an actor, but I am an awful liar.”

135. “Any actor that's like, 'I hate the fact that I'm getting all of this attention,' is a liar. Especially when it's from the opposite sex.”

136. “Every forward is selfish, and any forward who tells you he is not selfish is a liar.”

137. “Tony Blair is not just the worst prime minister we've ever had, but by far the worst prime minister we've ever had. It makes my blood boil to think of the British soldiers who've died for that little liar.”

138. “I'm not proud of it, but I'm a great liar when I travel. I smile and lie, and things are smooth.”

139. “What's the funniest play ever written? I used to think it was 'Noises Off,' but now that I've seen 'The Liar,' I'm not so sure.”

140. “I think of 'Liar & Spy' as completely different and actually not at all like a 'When You Reach Me'-type story. I feel like 'Liar & Spy' has a much quieter, more emotional revelation.”

141. “We hesitate to call liars out in professional environments because we feel guilty for being suspicious. Calling someone a liar for no good reason is a frightening proposition for most.”

142. “Lies can be wonderful things, and when a lie is told artfully, if it's done with a degree of craftsmanship, I can't help but admire the liar.”

143. “Every newspaper on earth has called me a liar.”

144. “I think people are obsessed with their pets because pets don't speak. It's that simple. After you hang up the phone, you never hear a dog say, 'You're a liar, and you are making the same self-sabotaging mistakes that have kept you single for far too long.'”

145. “I have given myself dork shivers so many times that I would be an outright liar if I characterized myself as anything other than a pure, utter, and unadulterated dork.”

146. “Mr. Mr. Mr. Trump… You've been in New York real estate and global real estate and the gaming industry and with politicians. You can't say, reasonably, that Ted Cruz is the biggest liar you've ever seen.”

147. “Everyone gets scared from time to time. It's totally normal, and anyone who says otherwise is a liar.”

148. “I'm the worst liar alive.”

149. “Ironically, I'm a really crap liar, even though I do it for a living. I give away too much, somehow. I can't lie!”

150. “For the liespotter who knows how to listen well, the random words, sounds, and phrases in a person's speech are never as random as they seem. They offer a clear sightline into the liar's psyche.”

151. “I'm not a good liar. I just tell the truth; I think that's the best way.”

152. “Joe was being called a liar and a traitor; I'm being accused of nepotism, of being a glorified secretary. The stresses that that places on an individual and, of course, a marriage were tremendous. It was - there were some dark days.”

153. “Even though I'm an actor, I'm a very bad liar.”

154. “In 1995, I was diagnosed with cancer, and I had to practice what I preached. I had always said to 'believe in God' and 'don't give up' to little kids who had been diagnosed with cancer. I then thought if I can't call on that same God and same strength that I told people about, I would be a liar and a phony.”

155. “I love that Barry Seal is working for the CIA, and he's an awful liar. It just goes to how honest this character is at the end of the day, even as he rips off the country and the world to the tune of becoming one of the wealthiest men in America. There's an innate honesty, a purity to him.”

156. “I did a play in Bolton - 'Billy Liar.' I turned it down at first but then thought, 'What the hell else can I do? I'm no good at anything else.'”

157. “As someone who's run for office five times, if the Devil called me and said he wanted to set up a meeting to give me opposition research on my opponent, I'd be on the first trolley to Hell to get it. And any politician who tells you otherwise is a bald-faced liar.”

158. “In 'Winnie the Pooh,' a lot of the characters have serious flaws: Pooh is sort of a food addict. Rabbit is OCD, and Owl is a compulsive liar.”

159. “I remember being a teenager and saying, 'Oh, I want to be an actress when I grow up.' And people saying, 'You need to be a good liar - are you a good liar?'”

160. “I'm not a particularly good liar.”

161. “I love country music because it's honest - and I'm a terrible liar.”

162. “Anybody who tells you they're not scared when starting a new book project is a very good liar.”

163. “What is the difference between the novelist and the liar? At some moments, I have often wondered.”

164. “Funny money has always been the reason housing prices have risen too fast. First, it was liar loans and negative-amortizing mortgages, where the total amount you owed increased rather than decreased every month. We all know how that ended, with the global financial crisis of 2008.”

165. “I'd be a liar if I didn't say I learned things from Jeezy. Hell yeah, I took some things, some pluses and some minuses, do's and don'ts.”

166. “I'm the worst liar - I can't lie for my life. And I don't lie at all, because I'm the worst liar - but as a kid, I thought I was a great liar, so I would lie all the time, but everybody knew I was lying.”

167. “I'm not a liar. I'm a pretty straight up person.”

168. “I'm not a liar; I'm a truth teller.”

169. “That undeniable love for your child… that's something I totally get. And the bumps in the road, too. Like, any parent that thinks they have a perfect relationship with their child is a liar, or they're just not present.”

170. “No one on the planet Earth is going to be able to look at me on television and say that I'm a liar. It will not happen.”

171. “I would have no problem with a woman as president. I have a problem with Hillary Clinton as president. I think the right woman could be great. She's not the right woman. She's not the right anything. She's just a liar.”

172. “People might call me a liar for this, but I want a fast teammate, I think for two reasons: it's always going to get more out of yourself, and it's always going to be a more true evaluation of where you stand.”

173. “I'd be a liar if I said I didn't care what people think, but I would rather have less people who like or approve of me for who I really am than a bunch more people who like or approve me for what I'm not.”

174. “Barack Obama's ability to seduce people is well-known. He can bring his biggest critics into a room and have them coming out singing his praises. He's a charismatic and congenital liar.”

175. “There is a heap of evidence to show Michael Avenatti is a liar and yet he was treated as the ultimate arbitrator of truth. How embarrassing.”

176. “You can't call someone a fraud, a liar, and a fake and hide under the First Amendment.”

177. “It's not just that there's no other spokesperson for the executive seat of power in a democratic republic anywhere in the world where you see that type of lying. It's that there's never been a spokesman for the executive seat in power who is such a prolific liar as Sarah Sanders.”

178. “Liar' is the best work I've done.”

179. “That's the part I kept trying to say on Queen Radio: I don't have to believe you because you're saying it. I'm not saying you're a liar, I learned that long ago too. There's a big difference between you're a liar and I don't believe you.”

180. “Anyone who's in the magazine business thinks about advertisers when they write about something. And anyone who says they don't is a liar.”

181. “I think finding a way to relate material to yourself can be useful to some people but acting for me is just being really good at make-pretend and lying. I've always been a great liar.”

182. “Corbyn is not only a liar but clueless.”

183. “I've said it before, and I'll say it again - one can believe in Woody Allen's innocence without presuming Dylan Farrow to be a liar.”

184. “If you label someone lazy or a liar, he'll feel like that for life. Worse, guys lose motivation to change when we feel like your perception of us is set in stone.”

185. “It's one thing to be prejudiced. It's another to be a liar.”

186. “If you ask me a question… I'm not a liar so I'm not going to try and get out of the question. I just answer it.”

187. “I've never wanted to be a liar because truth heals me.”

188. “It should be obvious by now that Trump is not a crafty messenger or a particularly deep guy, he tells you exactly who he is and what he's going to do, assuming he's not lying, and he's a really bad liar.”

189. “Show me someone who has not had a pimple and I will show you a liar. We all have them so why try and act like we don't? Who cares!”