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Quotes About Liars

It was the fundamental flaw of democracy: Power found its way into the hands of liars and mobs instead of the cunning and the strong.
~ Kyle Mills
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, Island
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!
~ Demetri Martin
The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.
~ Will Rogers
Likewise, controversy helps to bring purity by removing the cowards. The Lord listed cowards along with unbelievers, the abominable, murderers, the immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and liars who will have their part in the lake of fire (see Revelation 21:8). Cowardice has no place in the kingdom of God, for true faith is characterized by courage.
~ Rick Joyner
Every war results from the struggle for markets and spheres of influence, and every war is sold to the public by professional liars and totally sincere religious maniacs, as a Holy Crusade to save God and Goodness from Satan and Evil.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
A certain type—he knew them all too well from years of experience as a detective, he knew how they acted, how they spoke, how their minds worked. These were people who would do anything to win at what they saw as the game of life, who had no allegiance to anyone or anything beyond themselves, who were gifted liars, who could scheme their way into almost anyone's confidence, then betray them without hesitation.
~ Alan Furst
Overcome anger with peace. Overcome evil with good. Overcome greed with generosity. Overcome liars with truth.
~ Dhammapada
Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.
~ Don Marquis
Fishing: a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.
~ Don Marquis
People who write fiction, if they had not taken it up, might have become very successful liars.
~ Ernest Hemingway
You need to remember that your excuses are seducers, your fears are liars and your doubts are thieves.
~ Robin Sharma
All pitchers are liars or crybabies.
~ Yogi Berra
There's more to me, more to the universe, than I suspected. Room for all the dreams I ever had, and all the nightmares...heroes in the gutters and in the mirror; saints in the frozen wasteland; fools and liars on the throne of wisdom, and hands reaching out in hunger that will never be filled.
~ Joan D. Vinge
Trust. It was a word that only liars used. A word the truthful had no need of.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.
~ Anna Magnani
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?
~ Anne Carson
"Keep clear of the dupes that talk democracyAnd the dogs that talk revolution,Drunk with talk, liars and believers.I believe in my tusks.Long live freedom and damn the ideologies,"Said the gamey black-maned wild boarTusking the turf on Mal Paso Mountain.
~ Robinson Jeffers
For the rest of his life that was what he said to anyone who asked—and there were people who asked, because the world is a cynical and suspicious place and, being full of liars, thinks of everything as a lie. Which is what Vidyasagar's story was.
~ Salman Rushdie
Trust. It was a word that only liars used. A word the truthful has no need of.
~ Joe Abercrombie
We burned them all. On a night when Granddad and the rest had taken boats across the bay, When the staff was off duty And we liars we're alone on the island, The four of us did what we were afraid to do. We burned not a home, but a symbol. We burned a symbol to the ground.
~ E. Lockhart
when the staff was off duty and we Liars were alone on the island, the four of us did what we were afraid to do. We burned not a home, but a symbol. We burned a symbol to the ground.
~ E. Lockhart
Woman brings pain. Woman is evil. There are no exceptions. I tell you, even the angels are liars. What does Proust say? "We lie all our lives, and more especially, only perhaps, to those whom we love." Open your Proust. I have underlined it for you.
~ Anais Nin
Corporate normally prefers to recruit backbenchers not because they are talents but often big liars, credit snatchers, dirty politics players etc and such attributes are appreciated in that workplace as their nature matches with the character of the owner and decision makers of that private company.
~ Anuj Somany