19 Top Quotes About Liars

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

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

Even a liar tells a hundred truths to one lie; he has to, to make the lie good for anything.
-Henry Ward Beecher

It's always better to face the truth, no matter how uncomfortable, than to continue coddling a lie.
-Lou Holtz

I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.
-Friedrich Nietzsche

Lies circle the earth while Truth is still trying to put on its shoes.
-Napoleon Bonaparte

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
-Abraham Lincoln

It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.
-Norman Douglas

Be bad, but at least don't be a liar, a deceiver.
-Leo Tolstoy

When lies have been accepted for some time, the truth always astounds with an air of novelty.
-Clement of Alexandria

I honor those who try to rid themselves of any lying, who empty the self and have only clear being there.
-Rumi

Every time we tell a lie, the thing we fear grows stronger.
-Tad Williams

A liar is not believed even though he tell the truth.
-Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
-Jerome K. Jerome

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
-Plato

It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies.
-Arthur Calwell

People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to.
-Malcolm Muggeridge

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.
-Anatole France

If you want to be successful, you must respect one rule. Never lie to yourself.
-Paulo Coelho