Browsing Topic Best Liars Quotes

I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.

If you’re really successful at bullshitting, it means you’re not hanging around enough people smarter than you.

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.

We lie best when we lie to ourselves.

Figures don’t lie, but liars figure.

The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.

Sociopath is a word that has sort of become shorthand for psychopath and there’s a distinct difference, it’s interesting if you look it up. Sociopath if you look at the medical definition, the profile of a sociopath is that they are supremely intelligent people that are also pathological liars, they have no moral structure and there is one more, they have no compassion or empathy for other people.

Anyone telling about his travels must be a liar, . . . for if a traveler doesn’t visit his narrative with the spirit and techniques of fiction, no one will want to hear it.

People who don’t see their own nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are liars and fools.

Don’t lies eventually lead to the truth? And don’t all my stories, true or false, tend toward the same conclusion? Don’t they all have the same meaning? So what does it matter whether they are true or false if, in both cases, they are significant of what I have been and what I am? Sometimes it is easier to see clearly into the liar than into the man who tells the truth. Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

Too much of nothing can turn a man into a liar. It can cause one man to sleep on nails and another to eat fire.

Only fools, liars, and charlatans predict earthquakes

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.

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.

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.

If you tell the truth, you don’t need a long memory.

There are three kinds of liars: liars, damned liars, and statisticians

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

Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.

There is no such thing as a good writer and a bad liar.

A lie cannot live.

I will prove by my life that my critics are liars.

The only person who is a worse liar than a faith healer is his patient.

Either Christ is a liar or war is never necessary, and very properly assuming that Christ told the truth, it follows that the State is without [in the words of Father Macksey] ‘judicial authority to determine when war is necessary,’ because it is never necessary.

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.

There’s no comparison between NPR and the propaganda that you hear from Rush or from Sean Hannity, the news movement conservatives that are just laying out, slathering out the disinformation and the lies, as I discuss in my book, ‘Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right.’

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

Oh.’ I shot upright. ‘I was in Mongolia.’ Note to self: learn to be a less extreme liar.

I have a friend. He keeps trying to convince me he’s a compulsive liar, but I don’t believe him.

Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind.

Quacks are the greatest liars in the world except their patients.

You can best reward a liar by believing nothing of what he says.

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.

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Freedom isn’t free. It shouldn’t be a bragging point that ‘Oh, I don’t get involved in politics,’ as if that makes someone cleaner. No, that makes you derelict of duty in a republic. Liars and panderers in government would have a much harder time of it if so many people didn’t insist on their right to remain ignorant and blindly agreeable.