Sayings about Lies & Liars
Lying and stealing are next door neighbors. ~ Arabian Proverb
The path of a liar is short. ~ Swahili Proverbs
A good speaker makes a good liar. ~ German Proverb
Ask no questions and hear no lies. ~ Traditional Proverb
Believe the liar up to the door of his house and no further than that. ~ Egyptian Proverbs
Women believe the strangest of lies as long as they are wrapped up in praise. ~ French Proverb
Lies that build are better than truths that destroy. ~ Senegalese Proverb
Lies are usually caused by undue fear of men. ~ Hasidic Proverb
The punishment of a liar is that he is never believed, even when he speaks the truth. ~ Hebrew Proverb
“They say” is often a great liar. ~ Traditional Proverb
If you want some lies to be believed wrap them up in truths. ~ Danish Proverbs
The liar will travel the world over, but chooses not to go back home. ~ Polish Proverbs
A lie has no author, nor a liar a conscience. ~ Indian Proverb
The liar’s mother is a virgin. ~ Arabian Proverb
An old man telling lies is like a rich man stealing. ~ Russian Proverb
Lying will get you a wife, but it won’t keep her. ~ Cameroonian Proverbs
You can lock your door from a thief, but not from a damned liar. ~ Virgin Islander Proverb
Hearsay is half lies. ~ Dutch Proverbs
Lies never pay the toll. ~ Croatian Proverb
To quote lies is also lying. ~ Turkish Proverb
There are such things as false truths and honest lies. ~ Gypsy Proverb
A liar’s house is on fire and no one believes him. ~ Turkish Proverbs
A mind conscious of innocence laughs at the lies of rumor. ~ Latin Proverbs
A miser and a liar bargain quickly. ~ Greek Proverbs
Lies are accepted once, not twice. ~ Islamic Proverb
Show me a liar, and I’ll show you a thief. ~ French Proverb
With lies you may go ahead in the world, but you can never go back. ~ Russian Proverb
Excuses are always mixed with lies. ~ Arabian Proverb
One never accuses without a little bit of lying. ~ Chinese Proverb
He who tells no lies will not grow up. ~ Ugandan Proverbs
A liar is worse than a thief. ~ Traditional Proverb
He who lies for you will lie about you. ~ Arabian Proverb
Great talker, great liar. ~ French Proverb
When a liar speaks the truth, he is sick. ~ Romanian Proverbs
Except for my father and my mother everybody lies. ~ Berber Proverb
Those who foretell the future lies, even if he tells the truth. ~ Saudi Arabian Proverb
Beware: some liars tell the truth. ~ Arabian Proverb
“Almost” and “about” prevent lying. ~ French Proverb
There are many lies but barely one truth. ~ Ukrainian Proverbs
In the lake of lies there are many dead fish. ~ Russian Proverbs
Quotations about Lies & Liars
Those that think it permissible to tell a white lie soon grow color-blind. ~ Austin O’Malley
Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom. ~ Anatole France
Never argue with someone who believes their own lies. ~ Unknown
I never lie because I don’t fear anyone. You only lie when you’re afraid. ~ John Gotti
There never was a liar that had not a spot in him where he could not help admiring truth. ~ Henry Ward Beecher
A lie never lives to be old. ~ Sophocles
If you live in bad faith, lies will appear to you like the truth. ~ Frank Herbert
A lie has speed, but truth has endurance. ~ Edgar J. Mohn
Even a liar tells a hundred truths to one lie; he has to, to make the lie good for anything. ~ Henry Ward Beecher
When a liar became too skilled at deception, he could lose the ability to discern truth, and could himself be more easily deceived. ~ Dean Koontz
As the snow before the sun, even so is a polished lie before the naked truth. ~ William Scott Downey
The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him. ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
When a man lies, he murders some part of the world. ~ Rospo Pallenberg and John Boorman
He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return. ~ Graham Greene
A lie is like a snow-ball; the longer it is rolled, the larger it is. ~ Martin Luther
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to put its pants on. ~ Winston Churchill
A lie may take care of the present, but it has no future. ~ Croft M. Pentz
Never try to destroy someone else’s life with a lie when yours can be destroyed with the truth. ~ Author Unknown
By a lie, a man…annihilates his dignity as a man. ~ Immanuel Kant
The trust of the innocent is the liar’s most useful tool. ~ Stephen King
It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest. ~ Norman Douglas
A lie told often enough becomes the truth. ~ Vladimir Lenin
A liar is full of oaths. ~ Pierre Corneille
A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie. ~ Charles Edward Montague
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. ~ Mark Twain
When the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be their yet. ~ Cormac Mccarthy
One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives. ~ Mark Twain
It was easier to lie with a gesture than a word. ~ Samuel R. Delany
All my life I have lied. I lied to escape, I lied to be loved, I lied for placement and power; I lied to lie. It was a way of living; lies are life’s almost-anagram. ~ John Banville
If a lie is repeated often enough all the dumb jackasses in the world not only get to believe it, they even swear by it. ~ Billy Boy Franklin
There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one’s self on lies and fables. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes
The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves. ~ V. S. Naipaul
A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable. ~ Finley Peter Dunne
I never lie … at least not to those I don’t love. ~ Anne Rice
It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar. ~ Jerome K. Jerome
The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it. ~ Minna Antrim
We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves. ~ Eric Hoffer
The best lies are always at least partially true. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Husband a lie, and trump it up in some extraordinary emergency. ~ Joseph Addison
There must be repressed truth even in lies. ~ Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz
Ask no questions and you’ll hear no lies. ~ James Joyce
Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance. ~ Francis Bacon
The cruelest lies are often told in silence. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Never to lie is to have no lock to your door, you are never wholly alone. ~ Elizabeth Bowen
It takes two to lie. One to lie and one to listen. ~ Homer Simpson
You may tell the greatest lies and wear a brilliant disguise, but you can’t escape the eyes of the one who sees right through you. ~ Tom Robbins
The essence of a lie is the intention to deceive. ~ M. Prideaux
Lies were like acid, corrosive: They could dissolve trust in a heartbeat. ~ Rob Thurman
Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death. I can work out a good character much faster than anyone can lie me out of it. ~ Lyman Beecher
Most people will accept a likely lie to an unlikely truth. In fact, they prefer it. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton
A lie stands on one leg, truth on two. ~ Mark Twain
A good memory is needed once we have lied. ~ Pierre Corneille
The lie that flatters I abhor the most. ~ William Cowper
Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true. ~ Elias Canetti
Some lies are easier to believe than the truth. ~ Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson
I am a lie who always speaks the truth. ~ Jean Cocteau
And, after all, what is a lie? ‘Tis but the truth in masquerade. ~ Lord Byron
A liar will not be believed even when he speaks the truth. ~ Aesop
A good man will not lie, although it be for his profit. ~ Cicero
A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. ~ Mark Twain
Only a lie that wasn’t ashamed of itself could possibly succeed. ~ Isaac Asimov
When you tell a lie, you steal someone’s right to the truth. ~ Khaled Hosseini
No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar. ~ Abraham Lincoln
A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood. ~ William Shenstone