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Quotes About Liar

So if it's not this exact prophet of self-indulgence we're looking to for reassurance, it will be some other liar who's good at distracting us from the truth.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Who ever told you there is no such thing in the world as real, true, everlasting love? May the liar have his despicable tongue cut out!
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
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 writer of fiction is really... a congenital liar who invents from his own knowledge or that of other men.
~ Ernest Hemingway
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
For all this, it was essential that one take him seriously, and this was very hard to do, unless one sought the easiest way out of the dilemma between the unspeakable horror of the deeds and the undeniable ludicrousness of the man who perpetrated them, and declared him a clever, calculating liar—which he obviously was not.
~ Hannah Arendt
She should laugh at such ambitions on his part: nothing about him held any romance for her, not his crown, not his black heart, not his beautiful liar's face.
~ Sherry Thomas
The Senator was vulgar, almost illiterate, a public liar easily detected, and in his "ideas" almost idiotic, while his celebrated piety was that of a traveling salesman for church furniture, and his yet more celebrated humor the sly cynicism of a country store. Certainly there was nothing exhilarating in the actual words of his speeches, nor anything convincing in his philosophy. His political platforms were only wings of a windmill.
~ Sinclair Lewis
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
I was a violent, bipolar, compulsive liar. I was a real American.
~ Ben Lerner
My sword, I told him, says I tell the truth, and that you are a stinking bag of wind, a liar from hell, a cheat and a perjurer who deserves death. Up to our arses again, Leofric said.
~ Bernard Cornwell
Actually, I'm an excellent liar. But what I'm really good at is appearing appropriately sheepish and adorable after I'm caught.
~ Julia Quinn
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
You are the worst kind of liar. You justify your actions. If you see a need, your arrogance precludes you from ever considering that there may be an alternative aside from your scheming and manipulations.
~ Sophie Jordan
Silence the angry man with love. Silence the ill-natured man with kindness. Silence the miser with generosity. Silence the liar with truth.
~ Gautama Buddha
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
I am a congenital liar. Some Highlanders are. To my ancestors, the truth was so sacred as to be unusable.
~ Gladys Mitchell
FIB, n. A lie that has not cut its teeth. An habitual liar's nearest approach to truth: the perigee of his eccentric orbit.
~ Ambrose Bierce
I knew a girl, her name was Truth. She was a terrible liar.
~ Ben Harper
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
A lie is the only truth about a liar.
~ Ketan Waghmare
Send them all my salary On the waters of oblivion Too much of nothing Can turn a man into a liar It can cause one man to sleep on nails And another man to eat fire Ev'rybody's doin' somethin' I heard it in a dream But when there's too much of nothing It just makes a fella mean
~ Bob Dylan
Success is a liar liars love success
~ Francis Picabia
What would they think if they knew that their champion - the Hero of Ages, their savior - doubted himself? Perhaps they wouldn't be shocked at all. In a way, this is what worries me most. Maybe, in their hearts, they wonder - just as I do. When they see me, do they see a liar?
~ Brandon Sanderson