Top 35 Liars Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.”

— Mark Twain

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2. “I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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3. “Real eyes, realize, real lies...”

— Tupac Shakur

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4. “Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.”

— Mark Twain

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5. “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

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6. “I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.”

— James Baldwin

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7. “You can fool some people some times, but you can’t fool all the people all the time.”

— Bob Marley

Also featured in: Truth Quotes

8. “A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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9. “Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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10. “Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons.”

— Michael Jackson

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11. “The worst crime is faking it.”

— Kurt Cobain

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12. “The trust of the innocent is the liar’s most useful tool.”

— Stephen King

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13. “It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.”

— Niccolò Machiavelli

14. “The rules are simple: they lie to us, we know they’re lying, they know we know they’re lying, but they keep lying to us, and we keep pretending to believe them.”

— Elena Gorokhova

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15. “Truth is treason in the empire of lies.”

— Ron Paul

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16. “Avoid him who talks sweetly before you but tries to ruin you behind your back, for he is like a pitcher of poison with milk on top.”

— Chanakya

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17. “But a lie is a lie, and in itself intrinsically evil, whether it be told with good or bad intents.”

— Immanuel Kant

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18. “The liar’s punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.”

— George Bernard Shaw

Also featured in: Karma Quotes, Betrayal Quotes

19. “A lie can run round the world before the truth has got its boots on.”

— Terry Pratchett

20. “Don’t lie to me. Don’t deceive me. Give me the truth. Even if it breaks me. A painful truth is better than a pleasant lie.”

— Yasmin Mogahed

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21. “God knows what you’ve been doing, everything you’ve been doing. You may fool me, but you can’t fool God!”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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22. “Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever,- One foot in sea and one on shore, To one thing constant never.”

— William Shakespeare

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23. “Honesty doesn’t always pay, but dishonesty always costs.”

— Michael Josephson

Also featured in: Honesty Quotes

24. “It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies.”

— Noam Chomsky

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25. “If you betray yourself, if you say untrue things, if you act out a lie, you weaken your character.”

— Jordan B. Peterson

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26. “A lie is just a great story that someone ruined with the truth.”

— Barney Stinson

Also featured in: Storytelling Quotes, Sarcastic Quotes, Funny Best Friend Quotes

27. “Tell the truth. That way you don't have to remember a story.”

— John Wooden

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28. “I’m not crying because of you; you’re not worth it. I’m crying because my delusion of who you were was shattered by the truth of who you are.”

— Steve Maraboli

Also featured in: Sorrow Quotes, Broken Heart Quotes, Toxic People Quotes

29. “Politicians promise you heaven before an election and give you hell after.”

— Emma Goldman

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30. “In Paradise, everyone speaks the truth. That is what makes it Paradise. Tell the truth. Or, at least, don’t lie.”

— Jordan B. Peterson

Also featured in: Truth Quotes

31. “A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.”

— Mark Twain

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32. “A lie told often enough becomes the truth.”

— Vladimir Lenin

33. “You look like an angel, walk like an angel, talk like an angel. But I got wise, you’re the devil in disguise.”

— Elvis Presley

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34. “The price of dishonesty is self-destruction.”

— Rita Mae Brown

35. “False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.”

— Plato

36. “When you have something to say, silence is a lie.”

— Jordan B. Peterson

37. “Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Also featured in: Human Nature Quotes

38. “My first rule: I don’t believe anything the government tells me.”

— George Carlin

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39. “Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect.”

— Jonathan Swift