2. “A storyteller makes up things to help other people. A liar makes up things to help himself.” – Daniel Wallace
3. “The liar’s punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.” –
4. “One lie has the power to tarnish a thousand truths.” – Al David
5. “Even a tiny bit of deceit is dishonorable when it’s used for selfish or cowardly reasons.” – Jeanne Birdsall
6. “Anybody who says they are a good liar, obviously, is not because any legitimately savvy liar would always insist they’re honest about everything.” – Chuck Klosterman
7. “People don’t lie to contaminate truth. They lie to pollute their hearts.” – Munia Khan
8. “Lies are like cockroaches. For every one you discover, there are many more that are hidden.” – Gary Hopkins
9. “The truly scary thing about undiscovered lies is that they have a greater capacity to diminish us than exposed ones.” – Cheryl Hughes
10. “A liar is always lavish of oaths.” – Pierre Corneille
11. “Lies sound like facts to those who’ve been conditioned to misrecognize the truth.” – DaShanne Stokes
12. “Hard truths can be dealt with, triumphed over, but lies will destroy your soul.” – Patricia Briggs
13. “Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies, soon grow color-blind.” – Austin O’Malley
14. “Truth is as straight as an arrow while a lie swivels like a snake.” – Suzy Kassem
15. “I’m not upset that you lied to me. I’m upset that from now on, I can’t believe you.” –
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16. “The trust of the innocent is the liar’s most useful tool.” – Stephen King
17. “A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.” – William Shenstone
18. “You can believe in whatsoever you like, but the truth remains the truth, no matter how sweet the lie may taste.” – Michael Bassey Johnson
19. “Sometimes, the point isn’t to make people believe a lie. It’s to make people fear the liar.” – Anne Elizabeth Applebaum
20. “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
21. “The liar was the hottest to defend his veracity, the coward his courage, the ill-bred his gentlemanliness, and the cad his honor.” – Margaret Mitchell
22. “When people don’t tell you the truth, what they really are saying is they don’t value you or their relationship with you enough to be honest.” – Shannon L. Alder
23. “Sometimes, you lie to deceive people. Sometimes, you lie because you need the lie to become the truth.” – Rick Riordan
24. “A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.” –
25. “Be careful. Not all are what they seem. Some people pretend to be the beach, but they’re actually quicksand.” – Steve Maraboli
26. “The truthful man is usually a liar.” – Alfred Nobel
27. “There is beauty in truth, even if it’s painful. Those who lie twist life so that it looks tasty to the lazy, brilliant to the ignorant, and powerful to the weak, but lies only strengthen our defects. They don’t teach anything, help anything, fix anything, or cure anything nor do they develop one’s character, one’s mind, one’s heart, or one’s soul.” – Jose N. Harris
28. “There’s a tipping point with lies, a point where you’ve said something so many times that it feels truer than the truth.” – Holly Black
29. “But he that sows lie in the end shall not lack a harvest, and soon, he may rest from toil indeed, while others reap and sow in his stead.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
30. “I do really believe that like so many liars, there is a real substratum of truth behind her lies.” –
31. “The lies we tell ourselves to keep from seeing the truth about our lovers don’t feel like lies. They feel comfortable, familiar, and true.” – Susan Forward
32. “Take back your power! I wish you the wisdom to realize that the problem isn’t that they keep lying to you. It’s that you keep believing them.” – Steve Maraboli
33. “Self-lies are false friends we look to for comfort and protection, and for a short time, they may make us feel better, but we can only keep the truth at bay for so long.” – Susan Forward
34. “There is tremendous trauma in the betrayal caused by a perpetual liar as they repeatedly commit psychological abuse.” – Cathy Burnham Martin
35. “When you don’t have honesty in love, then there is no communication. Honesty is the improvisation of the heart. Anything less is a well thought out and rehearsed script.” – Shannon L. Alder
36. “When your ears hear one thing, but your eyes see another, use your brain.” – Frank Sonnenberg
37. “When people cheat in any arena, they diminish themselves. They threaten their own self-esteem and their relationships with others by undermining the trust they have in their ability to succeed and in their ability to be true.” – Cheryl Hughes
38. “I don’t degrade anyone, but a liar and a person who doesn’t keep his or her words has not any value in my eyes.” – Ehsan Sehgal
39. “It takes a lot of truth to gain trust, but just one likes to lose it all.” – Anonymous
40. “The worst part about being lied to is knowing that to that person, you weren’t worth the truth.” – Anonymous
41. “Lies don’t end relationships. The truth does.” – Shannon L. Alder
42. “Over time, any destroys intimacy, and without intimacy, couples cannot have true and lasting love.” – Bonnie Eaker Weil
43. “Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.” – Dorothy Allison
44. “Cheating and lying aren’t struggles. They’re reasons to break up.” – Patti Callahan Henry
45. “Because even if the lie is beautiful, the truth is what you face in the end.” – Lauren DeStefano
46. “Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.” –
47. “The most confused we ever get is when we’re trying to convince our heads of something our heart knows is a lie.” – Karen Marie Moning
48. “Stop lying to yourself. When we deny our own truth, we deny our own potential.” – Steve Maraboli
49. “We lie the loudest when we lie to ourselves.” – Eric Hoffer
50. “It’s difficult to be honest with others when you continue lying to yourself.” – Carlos Wallace
51. “If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.” – William Somerset Maugham
52. “The way to happiness is by the truth. Seek to be true in all things, and you will have a foundation to build your future.” – Shannon L. Alder
53. “When your lover is a liar, you and he have a lot in common. You’re both lying to you!” – Susan Forward
54. “Be careful who you pretend to be. You might forget who you are.” – Anonymous
55. “Be bad, but at least don’t be a liar, a deceiver!” –
56. “If you lose your integrity, you will also lose your identity, your sensitivity, and your dignity. Integrity is honesty, modesty, and security in all kinds of weather. It should be our priority!” – Israelmore Ayivor
57. “Once you place that crown of a liar on your head, you can take it off again, but it leaves a stain for all time.” – Terry Goodkind
58. “A liar is a liar and lives on the lies he tells and dies in a life of lies.” – Carl Sandburg
59. “Telling one lie almost always requires another, and before the storyteller knows it, they will be caught inside of their own web.” – Jenna Alatari
60. “The more you defend a lie, the angrier you become.” – Mitch Albom
61. “Lies rob us of our trust, and we project our untrustworthiness onto everyone around us. Have you ever noticed that the innocent are very trusting? They neither lie nor hold other people’s lies against them. Liars, on the other hand, see sabotage everywhere.” – Donna Goddard
62. “The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others but from his own soul.” – Edward Morgan Forster
63. “A lie is enough to prove you are a liar. Lies help people to forget about the things you have done in the past and remain constant for whole future as doubt.” – Nishan Panwar
64. “Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.” –
65. “It seemed there was no end at all to the lies a person could tell once they got started.” – Kim Edwards
66. “There is nothing worse for the lying soul than the mirror of reality.” – Steve Maraboli
67. “Our lie is like a cancer that’s spread to every single area of our lives.” – Simone Elkeles
68. “I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.” – Michel de Montaigne
69. “You can’t constantly lie and expect people to trust you.” – Anonymous
70. “I wasn’t sure which was worse, to know you were a liar or to believe your own bullshit.” – Eileen Cook
71. “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.” –
72. “When an honest man speaks, he says only what he believes to be true, and for the liar, it is correspondingly indispensable that he considers his statements to be false.” – Harry Frankfurt
73. “To a liar, truth is more a stranger than fiction.” – Evan Esar
74. “No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.” –
75. “Screaming and repeating lies makes them neither true nor more believable.” – Cathy Burnham Martin
76. “You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.” – Abraham Lincoln
77. “If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.” – Logan Pearsall Smith
78. “The ability to lie paired with unaccountability, has made a near-infinite amount of liabilities.” – Justin McFarlane Beau
79. “He, of course, is a liar, but that doesn’t really matter because if you know liars are liars, it comes to the same thing.” – Agatha Christie
80. “A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.” – Alfred Tennyson
81. “At times, to be silent is to lie. You will win because you have enough brute force, but you will not convince. For to convince, you need to persuade, and in order to persuade, you would need what you lack—reason and right.” – Miguel de Unamuno
82. “The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.” – Jean Cocteau
83. “He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.” –
84. “Adding more bull to bull yields bigger bull.” – Cathy Burnham Martin
85. “Some people are in such utter darkness that they will burn you just to see a light. Try not to take it personally.” – Kamand Kojouri
86. “When denial can no longer hold, and we finally have to admit to ourselves that we’ve been lied to, we search frantically for ways to keep it from disrupting our lives.” – Susan Forward
87. “To a liar, the most dangerous individual is the person who catches lies but doesn’t say anything about it. Then the liar isn’t sure which lies are compromised.” – Jesse Ball
88. “Direct lies, small lies, huge lies, and lies of omission—these are all self-serving and sources of self-destruction.” – Cathy Burnham Martin
89. “Telling the truth and making someone cry is better than telling a lie and making someone smile.” – Anonymous
90. “People lie, cheat, and bully one another and then wonder why they’re unhappy.” – Marty Rubin
91. “I’d rather hear an ugly truth rather than an obscure lie.” – Ana Monnar
92. “If you don’t want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.” –
93. “Pigs are dirty, but I will tell you something dirtier, liars! Untruth always smells like rotten garbage!” – Mehmet Murat İldan
94. “Only fools and liars claim to know everything because the fool thinks all that he knows is everything, and the liar knows there is no sufficient data to know everything.” – Nyona Matende
95. “Integrity is a bugger. It really is. Lying can get you into difficulties, but to really wind up in the crappers, try telling nothing but the truth.” – David Mitchell
96. “Given a choice between life and death, choose life. Given a choice between right and wrong, choose what’s right. And given a choice between a terrible truth and a beautiful lie, choose the truth every time.” – Mira Grant
97. “The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head.” – Terry Pratchett
98. “The tongue may hide the truth but the eyes, never!” – Mikhail Bulgakov
99. “If what he said was the truth, it broke her heart. If what he said was a lie, it was broken anyway.” – Christine Feehan
100. “Liars are highly unlikely to admit their lies, never mind apologize for the hurt they’ve caused. Liars don’t genuinely apologize.” – Cathy Burnham Martin
101. “Lie until even you believe it. That’s the real secret of lying.” – Holly Black
102. “A good liar knows that the most efficient lie is always a truth that has had a key piece removed from it.” – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
103. “Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived.” – Sissela Bok
104. “If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.” – Mark Twain
105. “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.” –
106. “If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.” – Adolf Hitler
107. “Unfortunately, in today’s world, a liar seems to be more reliable than a truthful, honest man.” – Munia Khan
108. “Lying is done with words, and also with silence.” – Adrienne Rich
109. “The slickest way in the world to lie is to tell the right amount of truth at the right time and then shut up.” – Robert A. Heinlein
110. “When the truth is replaced by silence, the silence is a lie.” – Yevgeny Yevtushenko
111. “I don’t hate liars. I just disrespect them because they disrespect themselves in the first place.” – Revaz Eristavi
112. “The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.” – Samuel Butler
113. “A good lie finds more believers than a bad truth.” – John Laurie
114. “Neither a fake friend nor a liar can be trusted with a secret.” – Ellen J. Barrier
115. “There was a distinction between lying and telling half-truths, but it was a very narrow one.” – Alexander McCall Smith
116. “A liar often smiles subtly while telling a lie. It’s an unconscious expression of his delight in getting away with a whopper.” – Pamela Meyer
117. “Thieves and liars kill indirectly, unintentionally, and with no other weapon than their tongues and malice.” – A.E.H. Veenman
118. “When a man is penalized for honesty, he learns to lie.” – Criss Jami
119. “Anything is better than lies and deceit!” – Leo Tolstoy
120. “The mistake 99% of humanity made, as far as facts could see, was being ashamed of what they were, lying about it, trying to be somebody else.” – J.K. Rowling
121. “A true relationship is when you can tell each other anything and everything. No secrets and no lies.” – Anonymous
122. “Facts are threatening to those invested in fraud.” – DaShanne Stokes
123. “‘I never lie,’ I said offhand. ‘At least not to those I don’t love.'” – Anne Rice
124. “We reveal most about ourselves when we speak about others.” – Kamand Kojouri
125. “Hypocrites get offended by the truth.” – Jess C. Scott
126. “In politics, you learn how to say A, mean to say B. In wisdom, you learn how to say A and keep saying that.” – Oscar Auliq-Ice
127. “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.” –
128. “Once a country is habituated to liars, it takes generations to get the truth back.” – Gore Vidal
129. “People wear a mask of a lie so they look attractive, so be careful.” – Muhammad Saqib
130. “Accepting fraud from our leaders means accepting fraud in our personal lives.” – DaShanne Stokes
131. “I don’t tolerate liars. I’m a nice person, not a stupid one.” – Anonymous
132. “Never lie to someone who trusts you. Never trust someone who lies to you.” – Anonymous
133. “Tell a lie once, and all your truth becomes questionable.” – Anonymous
134. “One lie is enough to question all truth.” – Anonymous
135. “A lie may take care of the present, but it has no future.” – Anonymous
136. “You don’t lie to the person you love. It’s the most horrible thing to do as a lover.” – Anonymous
137. “The truth doesn’t cost anything, but a lie could cost your everything.” – Anonymous
138. “Better to be slapped with the truth than kissed with a lie.” – Anonymous
139. “Trust takes years to build, seconds to break, and forever to repair.” – Anonymous