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Quotes About Liars

People who don't see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools.
~ Bodhidharma
my father encouraged me to enter medicine. He told me it was much nobler to worry about humans than about bugs. But you know, he was wrong. Because people are wicked. They are cheaters and liars and degenerates and drunks, and the science of medicine just keeps them alive so they can murder and commit even more sins. But I have yet to find anything about the workings of insects that has disappointed me.
~ Heather O'Neill
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
Liars are experts in chopping logic and missing the truth slightly - 'Did God say not to eat from any tree?' In order to pin a liar down, words must be defined in the most careful manner available.
~ Douglas Wilson
That's the problem with the truth," Darcy said. "Liars and honest men both claim to have it.
~ Hugh Howey
LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY!True anyhow no matter how manyLiars use those words.
~ Langston Hughes
Then the liars and swearers are fools, for there are liars and swearers enough to beat the honest men and hang up them.
~ William Shakespeare, Macbeth
Sex murders were usually the work of psychopaths and with that psychology was an innate ability to lie, to act, to feign surprise and horror when it was needed. Psychopaths were great liars.
~ Michael Connelly
I'd love to go to fashion week! I'm learning more about designers, thanks to 'Pretty Little Liars'' costume designer, Mandi Line.
~ Lucy Hale
Folk who tell the truth don't think they must keep repeating it. It's the truth - it's obvious. Only liars tell it over and over, trying to hammer their like into others' minds.
~ Tamora Pierce
I have never seen a strong and better weapon as truth. When you are honest you will just love it. People are afraid of the truth because of its sharpness, that's why they're liars.
~ Simon Mashalla
Consider this a warning. Liars will lie, and continue to do so, even beyond being caught out. They will lie, and in time, such liars will convince themselves, will in all self-righteousness divest the liars of culpability.
~ Steven Erikson
Actors depend on their likability, and their attractiveness, because they want people to watch them, to be drawn to them, to desire them. Because of this, actors are, by their very nature, liars.
~ Bret Easton Ellis
There is the past and its continuing horrors: violence, war, prejudices against those who are different, outrageous monopolization of the good earth's wealth by a few, political power in the hands of liars and murderers, the building of prisons instead of schools, the poisoning of the press and the entire culture by money. It is easy to become discouraged observing this, especially since this is what the press and television insist that we look at, and nothing more.
~ Howard Zinn
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
Beware of feelings, Father. They are the biggest liars in us. They make truth what we want it to be.
~ Dorothy Salisbury Davis
Liars will lie, and continue to do so, even beyond being caught out. They will lie, and in time, such liars will convince themselves, will in all self-righteousness divest the liars of culpability. Until comes a time when one final lie is voiced, the one that can only be answered by rage, by cold murder, and on that day, blood
~ Steven Erikson
Consider this then a warning. Liars will lie, and continue to do so, even beyond being caught out. They will lie, and in time, such liars will convince themselves, will in all self-righteousness divest the liars of culpability. Until comes a time when one final lie is voiced, the one that can only be answered by rage, by cold murder, and on that day, blood shall rain down every wall of this vaunted, weaning society.
~ Steven Erikson
Mark Twain said, "There are two types of speakers: those that are nervous and those that are liars.
~ Keith Ferrazzi
He's a journalist. They come in two varieties, cynics and liars.
~ Caleb Carr
The politics of the last twenty years in Britain are liars' politics. The problem is we are ruled by the weak and the small-minded, who are too stupid to know that they are weak and small-minded.
~ Irvine Welsh
I suppose if we gain anything from this unsought experience it will be an appreciation for honesty- frankness on the part of our politicians, our friends, our loves, ourselves. No more liars in public places. (And the bed and the bar are, in their way, as public as the floor of Congress.)
~ Tim O'Brien
And feeling, in a poet, is the source Of others' feeling; but they are such liars, And take all colours—like the hands of dyers.
~ George Gordon Byron
The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has. Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when it's through, if you are a crook or a martyr.
~ Will Rogers