Quotes on Liars

The fact about himself that the liar hides is that he is attempting to lead us away from a correct apprehension of reality; we are not to know that he wants us to believe something he supposes to be false. The fact about himself that the bullshitter hides, on the other hand, is that the truth-values of his statements are of no central interest to him . . . He does not care whether the things he says describe reality correctly. He just picks them out, or makes them up, to suit his purpose.

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

Never was a government that was not composed of liars, malefactors and thieves.

Cheats, liars and criminals may resist every blandishment while respectable gentlemen have been moved to appalling treasons by watery cabbage in a departmental canteen.

It's strange. You never start out life with the intention of becoming a bankrupt or an alcoholic or a cheat and a thief. Or a liar.

Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived.

A thief is a man in need. A liar is a man in fear.

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.

All governments are run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.

All men are liars, said Roberta Muldoon, who knew this was true because she had once been a man.

The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.

Readers are advised to remember that the devil is a liar.

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.

I have never voted. Like most people I am utterly disenchanted by politics. Like most people I regard politicians as frauds and liars and the current political system as nothing more than a bureaucratic means for furthering the augmentation and advantages of economic elites.

A mine is a hole in the ground with a liar on top.

As a child I was a great liar. Fortunately my mother liked my lies. I promised her marvelous things.

The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure. He is the very basis of civilized society.

Liars are the cause of all the sins and crimes in the world.

Lying is done with words and also with silence.

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

I know how easy it is for one to stay well within moral, ethical, and legal bounds through the skillful use of words - and to thereby spin, sidestep, circumvent, or bend a truth completely out of shape. To that extent, we are all liars on numerous occasions.