A Liar Quotes

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.
- Mark Twain

You have nice manners for a thief and a liar, said the dragon.
- J R R Tolkien

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

It's wrong," he says. "It doesn't matter if your parents are in a better place, they aren't here with you, and that's wrong, Tris. It shouldn't have happened. It shouldn't have happened to you. And anyone who tells you it's okay is a liar.
- Veronica Roth

Thomas," Chess said, "if you don't want to be famous and have your stories heard, then why'd you start the band up?"
"I heard voices," Thomas said. "I guess I heard voices. I mean, I'm sort of a liar, enit? I like the attention. I want strangers to love me. I don't even know why. But I want all kids of strangers to love me."
The Indian horses screamed.
- Sherman Alexie

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.
- Jesse Jackson

Love makes you a liar.
- Cassandra Clare

Actually," said Jace, "I prefer to think that I'm a liar in a way that's uniquely my own.
- Cassandra Clare

I'm an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a positive.
- Tim Allen

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.
- Tim Allen

I'm a liar. And I can't stop thinking about boys.
- Meg Cabot

God, what if TMZ got hold of the truth about me? What a liar I am, I mean? What kind of role model am I? I make Vanessa Hudgens look like Mother Freaking Teresa. Minus the whole nudity thing. Because I'm not about to take naked photos of myself and send them to my boyfriend.
- Meg Cabot

The first time I met you, you told me you grew up here, I'd call you a liar," Tate informed me.
I tipped my head to the side and asked, "Really?"
"Really."
"Why?"
"High-class," he replied.
"Sorry?"
"You looked high-class," he semi-repeated.
"I'm not," I stated.
"No, Ace, you're not. You're a different kind of class."
"Farmer class."
"Pure class.
- Kristen Ashley

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.
- David Attenborough

Doubt thou the stars are fire
Doubt thou the sun doth move
Doubt truth to be a liar
But never doubt I love
- Emilie Autumn

Paul sets forth the attitude to which the defender of the faith must be committed: Let God be found true, but every man a liar.
- Greg L Bahnsen

I can't believe you were going to call me a liar and take my place under the guillotine. Next time I try to save you, woman, you better stay saved. (Fury)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon

I hate over-privileged people in general. You just happen to fall into that category. No offense. But Nykyrian said you weren't a total bitch so I'll trust him until you make him out a liar. (Hauk)
You seriously lack social skills, don't you? (Kiara)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon

I think the difference between a lie and a story is that a story utilizes the trappings and appearance of truth for the interest of the listener as well as of the teller. A story has in it neither gain nor loss. But a lie is a device for profit or escape. I suppose if that definition is strictly held to, then a writer of stories is a liar - if he is financially fortunate.
- John Steinbeck

A writer of stories is a liar.
- John Steinbeck

Listen, for poets are feigned to lie, and I
For you a liar am a thousand times...
- John Berryman

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.
- Valerie Bertinelli

If I lie about truth which you will know somehow later,
then you would call me a liar. But If you're willing to dig
further about truth that force me do it, then you would
understand my reason. But you wouldn't acknowledge it.
- Toba Beta

Just because you don't believe me doesn't make me a liar.
- Shayla Black

I'd rather not have anything than be a liar.
- Alicia Keys

Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love.
- William Shakespeare

Are you insinuatin' that my daughter is a liar?"
"Oh, no, not at all. I'm saying your daughter is a liar. Surely you can appreciate the difference.
- Kami Garcia

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

Kids, she says. When they're little, they believe everything you tell them about the world. As a mother, you're the world almanac and the encyclopedia and the dictionary and the Bible, all rolled up together. But after they hit some magic age, it's just the opposite. After that, you're either a liar or a fool or a villain.
- Chuck Palahniuk

As a pastor and as a dad, I want my son to know I tell the truth. He can read the book. He knows if I exaggerated or if I didn't. My son is forever gonna believe that I'm an honest person or I'm a liar by what I wrote in that book, because he can read.
- Todd Burpo

Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought.
To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.
To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen.
To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies.
To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.
- Octavia Butler

Let every man be true and every god a liar.
- Samuel Butler

His whole body was completely still, except the wings, which were still fluttering a little, like when someone dies. That's when he finally understood that of all the things the angel had told him, nothing was true. That he wasn't even an angel, just a liar with wings.
- Etgar Keret

I shouldn't have to be a liar to make someone love me. I shouldn't be so afraid of losing someone that I'll do anything to make them stay.
- Deb Caletti

I'm not a liar, sir,' she said.
'No, I'm sure you sincerely become whatever it is you're pretending to be.
- Orson Scott Card

Caine was a murderer. A liar. A cad. A skulker in shadows and a heartless wretch. What sort of woman or God would love someone like him?
- V S Carnes

Denying the undeniable just makes you sound like a fool as well as a liar.
- Ally Carter

That's good; don't deny it. Denying the undeniable just makes you sound like a fool as well as a liar. In this profession, you can be one- sometimes the other. But never both.
- Ally Carter

It was the pleasure that a liar takes in his lie as it enters the world wearing the accent and raiment of the truth, sounding so right and plausible that--if he is any kind of liar at all--he begins, himself, to believe it. It was the pleasure that a maker of golems takes as the force of his words, the rhythm and accuracy of his alphabetical spells, blow life into the cold clay nostrils, and the great stony hand unclenches and reaches for his own.
- Michael Chabon

I am a politician which means I am a liar and a crook. When I am not kissing babies I am stealing their lollypops.
- Tom Clancy

The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau

But if you didn't have more urgent things to do after supper [in boot camp], you could write a letter, loaf, gossip, discuss the myriad mental shortcomings of sergeants and, dearest of all, talk about the female of the species (we became convinced that there was no such creatures, just mythology created by inflamed imaginations - one boy in our company claimed to have seen a girl, over at regimental headquarters; he was unanimously judged a liar and a braggart).
- Robert A Heinlein

Once a man gets a reputation as a liar, he might as well be struck dumb, for people do not listen to the wind.
- Robert A Heinlein

Many older physicians had gone to their graves calling Pasteur a liar, a fool, or worse---and without examining evidence which their "common sense" told them was impossible.
- Robert A Heinlein

Dear parents, Jasmine was in a relationship with a dirty homeless boy named Aladdin. Snow White lived alone with 7 men. Pinnochio was a liar. Robin Hood was a thief. Tarzan walked around without clothes on. A stranger kissed sleeping beauty and she married him. Cinderella lied and snuck out at night to attend a party. You can't blame us. We were taught to rebel since a young age.
- Walt Disney Company

I don't like anything that scares me, and I prefer to face it head on and get over it. Anyone who says they're not scared is a fool, a liar or both. I just don't want that fear in my stomach to be part of my life, so I work to eliminate it.
- Anderson Cooper

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.
- Anderson Cooper

A liar is always lavish of oaths.
- Pierre Corneille

I'm not a liar.
- Marion Cotillard

I think you are a liar because you think you know what is true. You think you feel what is true. But you do not yet know what you do feel and what you do know. Your desire and do not take; you love and are too afraid to feel your love; you conceal your vanity and pettiness from yourself; you are afraid to look into your soul and see what you are. That iis why i think you are a liar.
- Alison Croggon

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

I'm not saying I'm a liar,' I told him. He raised his eyebrows. 'That's not how I meant it, anyway.'
'How'd you mean it, then?'
I was digging myself a hole here, and I knew it. But still, I tried to explain myself. 'It's just... I don't always say what I feel.'
'Why not?'
'Because the truth sometimes hurts,' I said.
'Yeah,' he said. 'So do lies, though.
- Sarah Dessen

So you're always honest," I said.
"Aren't you?"
"No," I told him. "I'm not."
"Well, that's good to know, I guess."
"I'm not saying I'm a liar," I told him. He raised his eyebrows. "That's not how I meant it, anyways."
"How'd you mean it, then?"
"I just...I don't always say what I feel."
"Why not?"
"Because the truth sometimes hurts," I said.
"Yeah," he said. "So do lies, though.
- Sarah Dessen

Then what are you like, Annabel?" he shot back. "A liar, like you told me that first day? Come on. That was the biggest lie of all.
- Sarah Dessen

Any religious person who says he does not really need human friends because God is his Friend is calling God a liar because He's the One Who says we also need human friends.
- Mark Driscoll

The girl was grateful to the young man for every bit of flattery; she wanted to linger for a moment in its warmth and so she said, 'You're very good at lying.'
'Do I look like a liar?'
'You look like you enjoy lying to women,' said the girl, and into her words there crept unawares a touch of the old anxiety, because she really did believe that her young man enjoyed lying to women.
- Milan Kundera

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.
- Horace

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.
- Ursula K Le Guin

There are people in this world who cut such a grotesque figure that even death renders them ridiculous. And the more horrible the death the more ridiculous they seem. It's no use trying to invest the end with a little dignity you have to be a liar and a hypocrite to discover anything tragic in their going.
- Henry Miller

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.
- James L Farmer Jr

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

There is no one of-woman-born who does not like Red Lobster cheddar biscuits. Anyone who claims otherwise is a liar and a Socialist.
- Tina Fey

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.
- Gennifer Flowers

He promised us that everything would be okay. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be okay. That did not make my father a liar. It made him my father.
- Jonathan Safran Foer

When your lover is a liar, you and he have a lot in common, you're both lying to you!
- Susan Forward

I'd be a liar if I said I had a normal family.
- Edward Furlong

For the record, I don't expect you to believe any of this. Not really. I'm a liar by trade, after all; albeit, I like to think, an honest liar.
- Neil Gaiman

We need to develop a better descriptive vocabulary for lying, a taxonomy, a way to distinguish intentional lies from unintentional ones, and a way to distinguish the lies that the liar himself believes in a way to signal those lies that could be more accurately described as dreams. Lies they make for a tidy little psychological Doppler effect, tell us more about a liar than an undistorted self-report ever could.
- Rivka Galchen

Tell me that none of this troubles you, Jon...and I'll name you a liar, and know I have the truth of it.
Jon drew himself up, taut as a bowstring. And if it did trouble me, what might I do, bastard as I am?
What will you do? Mormont asked. Bastard as you are?
Be troubled, said Jon, and keep my vows.
- George R R Martin

Has my tale turned you speechless? Come, curse me or kiss me or call me a liar. Something.
- George R R Martin

When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say.
- George R R Martin

Be bad, but at least don't be a liar, a deceiver!
- Leo Tolstoy

If any man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor, he is a liar. If any man tells you he trusts America, yet fears labor, he is a fool.
- Abraham Lincoln

One's lover is one's partner in observing and understanding the world. Marriage is a place where joint narratives are composed. If the lover is a liar then all your joint observations are unreliable. You will have to start all over again.
- Philippa Gregory

Sometimes when you get older and I'm not talking about you, I'm talking generally, because everyone ages differently things you think on and wish on start to seem real. And then you believe them, and before you know it they're part of your history, and if someone challenges you on them and says they're not true why, then you get offended because you can't remember the first part. All you know is that you've been called a liar.
- Sara Gruen

That's what you get for telling the truth. Someone calls you a liar. Most people will accept a likely lie to an unlikely truth. In fact, they prefer it.
- Laurell K Hamilton

Only those who have never known fear are allowed to think less of others for being afraid. Frankly, I think anyone who has never been afraid of anything in their entire life is either a liar or lacks imagination.
- Laurell K Hamilton

We could go back to the way things were before, him accusing me of stuff and me pretending like I don't have a clue what he's talking about.
Right.
I'm not that good a liar, even when I'm lying to myself.
- Cynthia Hand

What is a writer of fiction but a liar with a licence?
- Joanne Harris

It's a wise person, I guess, who knows he's dumb, and an honest person who knows he's a liar. And it's a dumb person, I guess, whose convinced he's wise...-Bob Slocum
- Joseph Heller

Do you know what I think, Potter?' said Snape, very quietly. I think that you are a liar and a cheat and that you deserve detention with me every Saturday until the end of term. What do you think, Potter?
- J K Rowling

Is it true that you shouted at Professor Umbridge?"
"Yes."
"You called her a liar?"
"Yes."
"You told her He Who Must Not Be Named is back?"
"Yes."
"Have a biscuit, Potter.
- J K Rowling

This is me apologizing. I am a fool, a bird-brain, a liar and a horse-thief. I wouldn't touch a superlative again with an umbrella.
- Dorothy Parker

Hyrtacides pummeled his thighs and groaned and bit his lip and said: "O Father Zeus, you, even you, turn out to be a liar." [bk.12]
- Homer

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.
- J Edgar Hoover

I was recently told, 'You're a liar!' when I said to somebody I walked down the spine of the Andes. Every Spaniard in the sixteenth, seventeenth century did that. The idea that somebody could just walk! He can jog perhaps in the morning, but he can't walk anywhere! The world has become inaccessible because we drive there.
- Ivan Illich

No. It was because it was the first time I made love to anyone. You can call me a liar or anything else, but do not doubt me on this. And I swear to you that you were the first, and you will be the last.
- Larissa Ione

Just because something isn't a lie does not mean that it isn't deceptive. A liar knows that he is a liar, but one who speaks mere portions of truth in order to deceive is a craftsman of destruction.
- Criss Jami

Jarod Kintz is a friend, a lover, and a loner. Jarod Kintz talks about Jarod Kintz, because Jarod Kintz has nobody else to talk to. Jarod Kintz is also a liar and a thief, and that's why I think he'd make a great politician.
- Jarod Kintz

If we could celebrate our birthday on any day of the year, would you choose the one you were born on? I'd be a fool and a liar if I told you I didn't want to celebrate my birthday on April 1st. And you know I'm no liar.
- Jarod Kintz

The man lying on the sofa seemed friendly. But how friendly could he really be if he was a liar?
- Jarod Kintz

He who believes God, recognizes Him as true and faithful, and himself as a liar; for he mistrusts his own thinking as false, and trusts the Word of God as being true, though it absolutely contradicts his own reasoning.
- Martin Luther

My father is a liar and so am I.
But I'm going to stop. I have to stop.
I will tell you my story and I will tell it straight. No lies, no omissions.
That's my promise.
This time I truly mean it.
- Justine Larbalestier

I believe I am a person with unusual talents. I think I'd be a liar or stupid if I were to deny that.
- Joshua Lederberg

I proved him a liar but John made him look like a fool. All the time Ewell was on the stand I couldn't dare look at John and keep a straight face. John looked at him as if he were a three-legged chicken or a square egg. Don't tell me judges don't try to prejudice juries.
- Harper Lee

It is cycling as a professional sport that represents the problem. It can transform someone into a liar.
- Greg Lemond

I once called the head of a network a liar. In hindsight, I should have called him an incompetent liar.
- Steven Levitan

Readers are advised to remember the devil is a liar.
- C S Lewis

I am a woman who slept with my father the Pope.
They say I did, at least, and so does he.
And who am I to make of the Pope a liar,
And who is he to make a liar of me?
- Gregory Maguire

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.
- Maimonides

I know that you're selfish, selfish beyond words, and I know that you haven't the nerve of a rabbit, I know you're a liar and a humbug, I know that you're utterly contemptible. And the tragic part is'--her face was on a sudden distraught with pain--'the tragic part is that notwithstanding I love you with all my heart.
- W Somerset Maugham

He lacked tenderness; he was rude; and he had more than a streak of cruelty in him; he was a thief and a liar. He stood for everything she feared and hated and despised; but she knew she could love him... This was no choice made with the mind.
- Daphne Du Maurier

--Are you saying I'm a liar?
--No I'm just, like, speaking.
- Colum Mccann

And maybe I'm a liar and I do need it, because being kissed by Josh Bennet is kind of like being saved. It's a promise and a memory of the future and a book of better stories.
- Katja Millay

A gun is a liar's weapon
- Frank Miller

Do you believe that the actor on the stage is really a villain? Let me ask you something else. If he isn't a villain, then is he a liar?
- Steven Millhauser

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.
- A A Milne

How wonderful to know someone who was bad and dishonorable and a cheat and a liar, when all the world was filled with people who would not lie to save their souls and who would rather starve than do a dishonorable deed!
- Margaret Mitchell

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

Truth is a well-known pathological liar. It invariably turns out to be Fiction wearing a fancy frock. Self-proclaimed Fiction, on the other hand, is entirely honest. You can tell this, because it comes right out and says, "I'm a Liar," right there on the dust jacket.
- Alan Moore

[H]iding how you really feel and trying to make everyone happy doesn't make you nice, it just makes you a liar.
- Jenny O Connell

He always told his girl, "If only these walls could talk... the world would know just how hard it is to tell the truth in a story in which everyone's a liar."
But the walls didn't talk.
- Gregg Olsen

If only these walls could talk...the world would know just how hard it is to tell the truth in a story in which everyone's a liar.
- Gregg Olsen

To be a liar, you've got to have a great memory, and I don't have a memory.
- Ozzy Osbourne

If you are a dreamer, come in,
If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar,
A hope-er, a pray-er, a magic bean buyer...
If you're a pretender come sit by my fire
For we have some flax-golden tales to spin.
Come in!
Come in!
- Shel Silverstein

A liar should have a good memory.
- Quintilian

It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory.
- Quintilian

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.
- Daniel Radcliffe

People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I've learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one's reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one's master, comdemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person's view requires to be faked.
- Ayn Rand

Stephan was secretive and a liar, but he was a very gentle and expert lover. She was the petted, cherished child, the desired mistress, the worshipped, perfumed goddess. She was all these things to Stephan - or so he made her believe.
- Jean Rhys

Well, this was disappointing. I supposed I had jumped to a rather large conclusion, with the help of my research. It just went to show that Wikipedia was a liar and Google a whore.
- Maggie Stiefvater

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.
- John Ritter

What's the truth? The truth is what people WANT. Liars are basically idealists, liars are saints and prophets. Jesus was a liar.
- Jane Rogers

You have to be a bit of a liar to tell a story the right way.
- Patrick Rothfuss

Rena: Come on. Who was that man?
Keiichi: I-I don't know him!
Rena: Liar. What were you talking about?
Keiichi: S-S-Something that doesn't have anything to do with you!
Rena: Oh...Ah-ha-ha. Oh. So it has nothing to do with us...
Keiichi: Th-That's right...
Rena: You're lying!!
- Ryukishi07

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.
- Maurice Sendak

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

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.
- Robert E Sherwood

When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.
- Isaac Bashevis Singer

Dear God," she prayed, "let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. Let me be gay; let me be sad. Let me be cold; let me be warm. Let me be hungry...have too much to eat. Let me be ragged or well dressed. Let me be sincere - be deceitful. Let me be truthful; let me be a liar. Let me be honorable and let me sin. Only let me be something every blessed minute. And when I sleep, let me dream all the time so that not one little piece of living is ever lost.
- Betty Smith

If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.
- Logan P Smith

Like I've said before, so many times before, I'm not a good person, I'm not a hero. I'm a criminal, a liar, a cheat, a killer. It was them or me and I wanted to live.
- Alexander Gordon Smith

Men should pledge themselves to nothing; for reflection makes a liar of their resolution.
- Sophocles

I know men and women. An honourable man is an honourable man, and a liar is a liar; both are born and not made. One cannot change to the other any more than that same old leopard can change its spots.
After a man tells a woman the first untruth of that sort, the others come piling thick, fast, and mountain high.
- Gene Stratton Porter

Everyone lies... It may not be about the same thing, but everyone does it. People do it to fit in, people do it to feel civilized, and there are many more reasons. You can be an honest person, and still be a liar. Everyone lies, including your God. If you don't believe so, then you are simply lying to yourself.
- Lionel Suggs

The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow.
- Billy Sunday

All you are is mean and a liar and pathetic and alone in life and mean, and mean, and mean
- Taylor Swift

She was famous, and she was insane.
Her voice soared out over the audience, holding them spellbound and enraptured, delivering their hopes and fears tangled in chords and rhythm. They called her an angel, her voice a gift.
She was famous, and she was a liar.
- Dianne Sylvan

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.
- Cathy Rindner Tempelsman

I ain't saying you're a liar, because that wouldn't be polite. But I'll tell you this, ma'am. If I loved liars, I'd hug you to death.
- Jim Thompson

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.
- Mel Torme

"Let God be true but every man a liar" is the language of true faith.
- Aiden Wilson Tozer

When it comes to love, everyone is a liar.
- Brady Udall

But fate-that fickle bitch-made a liar out of me. Again.
- Jaye Wells

The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!
- Tennessee Williams