55 Liar Quotes and Lies Sayings to Help You Deal with Dishonesty

We have all lied.

Sometimes to save ourselves pain or punishment. Other times to save someone else pain and so we've told a white lie.

But when people in your life make lying a habit, when your relationship – romantic, friendship or maybe one at work – becomes infested with lies then the situation is different.

Then it may be time to have a frank talk with them. Or if that doesn’t work (or you’re way past that) to spend less time with that person. Or cut them out of your life entirely.

In this post I’d like to share the most helpful and powerful liar quotes and lies sayings.

To help you deal with dishonesty in a smarter and healthier way and not get dragged down into endless fights, into self-loathing or anger and depression that undermines you and your hopes and dreams.

And if you want more helpful inspiration then check out this post with quotes on dealing with toxic people and this one filled with quotes on fake people.

Relatable Liar Quotes

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

“There is tremendous trauma in the betrayal caused by a perpetual liar as they repeatedly commit psychological abuse.”
Cathy Burnham Martin

“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

“Lies sound like facts to those who've been conditioned to misrecognize the truth.”
DaShanne Stokes

“Pigs are dirty, but I will tell you something dirtier: Liars! Untruth always smells like rotten garbage!”
Mehmet Murat Ildan

“All liars … lie to protect themselves, to shield their egos from the raw pain of truth.”
Aminatta Forna

“The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!”
Tennessee Williams

“Lies are like cockroaches, for every one you discover there are many more that are hidden.”
Gary Hopkins

“Mean people don't bother me. Mean people who disguise themselves as nice people bother me a lot.”
Cindy Cummings Johnson

“Over time, any deception destroys intimacy, and without intimacy couples cannot have true and lasting love.”
Bonnie Eaker

“I appreciate people who tell me the truth in a gentle way – even when it's tough to say.”
Karen Salmansohn

Helpful Liar Quotes

“To know the good from the bad, study a man or woman's history of actions, not their record of intentions.”
Suzy Kassem

“A liar is a liar and lives on the lies he tells and dies in a life of lies.”
Carl Sandburg

“Be careful… not all are what they seem. Some people pretend to be the beach, but they're actually quicksand.”
Steve Maraboli

“I don't hate liars. I just disrespect them, because they disrespect themselves in the first place.”
Revaz Eristavi

“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

“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

“People don't lie to contaminate truth. They lie to pollute their hearts.”
Munia Khan

“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

“Sociopaths have lifelong patterns of deceitfulness for personal gain. They lack remorse and empathy and are wizards at rationalizing away how they hurt and mistreat others.”
Gary Small

“You can't always expect people to apply your wisdom when they didn't use wisdom before they found themselves knee deep in their version of justice.”
Shannon L. Alder

“Trying to make sense of crazy will simply drive you crazy. Let it go.”
Karen Salmansohn

“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

Wise Liar Quotes

“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.”
Thomas Sowell

“Direct lies, small lies, huge lies, and lies of omission… these are all self-serving and sources of self-destruction.”
Cathy Burnham Martin

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

“Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Even a tiny bit of deceit is dishonorable when it's used for selfish or cowardly reasons.”
Jeanne Birdsall

“Someone said there's no such thing as an honest man. He was probably a con man.”
Frank W. Abagnale

“Once a country is habituated to liars, it takes generations to get the truth back.”
Gore Vidal

“We all have defining moments. It is in these moments that we find our true characters. We become heroes or cowards; truth tellers or liars; we go forward or we go backward.”
Robert Kiyosaki

“It makes me sad to see how far too often people are loved when they are fake, and hated when they are truthful.”
Karen Salmansohn

Insightful Liar Quotes

“When your ears hear one thing, but your eyes see another…use your brain.”
Frank Sonnenberg

“People lie, cheat and bully one another and then wonder why they're unhappy.”
Marty Rubin

“Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears.”
Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“The ability to lie, paired with unaccountability, has made a near infinite amount of liabilities.”
Justin K. McFarlane

“Stop falling for those who won't raise you up in the future.”
Michael Bassey

“Corrupt men are always liars. Lies are their instruments, their pleasure, their solace. In time they come to believe their lies, or rather to half-believe them.”
Robert Payne

“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

“There is nothing worse for the lying soul than the mirror of reality.”
Steve Maraboli

“Liars are always ready to take oaths.”
Vittorio Alfieri

“The truly scary thing about undiscovered lies is that they have a greater capacity to diminish us than exposed ones.”
Cheryl Hughes

“You can criticize me. You can crucify me. You can love me. You can hate me. Just don't make the mistake of calling me inauthentic, because you'd be a damn liar.”
Stephen A. Smith

“A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.”
William Shenstone

“Loving words are just a bunch of pretty verbal decorations if they're not backed up by loving actions.”
Karen Salmansohn