Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marcus Tullius Cicero

We don't believe a liar even when he tells the truth.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

A liar is not believed even though he tell the truth.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

Margaret Deland

... if a man really and truly believed that black was white, you might advise him to see an oculist, but you mustn't call him a liar.

Mark Twain

There are two types of speakers: those that are nervous and those that are liars.

Mark Twain

Figures don't lie, but liars figure.

Mark Twain

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

Mark Twain

There are only two types of speakers in the world. 1. The nervous and 2. Liars.

Mark Twain

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

Jessica Simpson

And I'm the worst liar of all time.

Jerry Brown

We’re being ripped off and screwed by a bunch of liars, thieves, crooks, and criminals, and they’re not the folks below. Don’t look in the streets, look in the corporate suites.

Neil Cavuto

We're a nation of liars. But I mean that in the kindest sense.

R. C. Sproul

If you are of the truth, if you have learned the truth, if you see the sanctity of the truth, then speak truth. We are not called to be deceivers or liars. God is a God of truth, and His people are called to have an enormously high standard of truth.

NeNe Leakes

Let me get you to understand I don't bully anybody. I stand up for what I believe in and I'm very honest and I always tell the truth. I'm not a liar, I'm not manipulative and I don't stab you in your back because I will stab you in your chest.

Graham Greene

When I replied that I loved her too in that way, I was the liar, not she, for I never lose the consciousness of time: to me the present is never here: it is always last year or next week.

Once Around the Sun - Nostalgia is a seductive liar

Michael Drayton

Thus when we fondly flatter our desires, Our best conceits do prove the greatest liars.

Shan Sa

Politicians are better liars than writers.

Sidney Poitier

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.

Sherman Alexie

We Indians really should be better liars, considering how often we've been lied to.

Niccolo Machiavelli

I don't doubt that every prince would like to be both; but since it is hard to accomodate these qualities, if you have to make a choice, to be feared is much safer than to be loved. For it is a good general rule about men, that they are ungrateful, fickle, liars, and deceivers, fearful of danger and greedy for gain....[love] is a link of obligation which men, because they are rotten, will break anything they think doing so serves their advantage; but fear involves dread of punishment, from which they can never escape.

Niccolo Machiavelli

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

Ted Cruz

Whenever anyone does as this ad does, plays the actual words of Donald Trump on national television, his response is to yell, "Liar." Their strategy is simply to yell, "Liar, liar, liar."

Ted Cruz

What we saw with both Donald Trump and Marco Rubio, that their response, whenever you point to anything in their record, is just to yell, "Liar, liar, liar," and to get very personal and to make direct character attacks. And my approach, from the very beginning of this [President's] campaign, starting a year ago [in 2015], is that I will not respond in kind. I do not intend to insult any of the candidates.

Ted Cruz

I don`t get angry often, but you mess with my wife, you mess with my kids, that will do it every time. Donald [Trump], you`re a snivelling coward and leave Heidi the hell alone. This man is a compulsive liar.

Theodore Roosevelt

'Liar' is just as ugly a word as 'thief,' because it implies the presence of just as ugly a sin in one case as in the other. If a man lies under oath or procures the lie of another under oath, if he perjures himself or suborns perjury, he is guilty under the statute law.

Theodore Roosevelt

The liar is no whit better than the thief, and if his mendacity takes the form of slander he may be worse than most thieves. It puts a premium upon knavery untruthfully to attack an honest man, or even with hysterical exaggeration to assail a bad man with untruth.

Margaret Mitchell

How wonderful to know someone who was bad and dishonorable and a cheat and a liar, when all the world was filled with people who would not lie to save their souls and who would rather starve than do a dishonorable deed!

Margaret Mitchell

The liar was the hottest to defend his veracity, the coward his courage, the ill-bred his gentlemanliness, and the cad his honor

Michael Tomasky

John McCain is a liar and flip-flopper and panderer and bully and whiner. And it seems to be working

The airline industry is full of bullshitters, liars and drunks. We excel at all three in Ireland.

Paul Fussell

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.

Patrick Rothfuss

You have to be a bit of a liar to tell a story the right way.