31 Quotes About Compulsive Liars

Dealing with a liar can be a dangerous business. For compulsive liars, there is an art to self deception and they may even be considered to be honest liars. In their sense, they are being truthful. Here are some great quotes about compulsive liars that will heighten your awareness to their deception.

“Contrary to all those times you’ve heard a writer confess at a reading that he writes fiction because he is a pathological liar, fiction writing is all about telling the truth.”

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

“Habitual liars invent falsehoods not to gain any end or even to deceive their hearers, but to amuse themselves. It is partly practice and partly habit. It requires an effort in them to speak truth.”

“Hard truths can be dealt with, triumphed over, but lies will destroy your soul.”

“He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world’s believing him.”

“He who tells a lie, is not sensible how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.”

“I always say the truth is best even when we find it unpleasant. Any rat in a sewer can lie. It’s how rats are. It’s what makes them rats. But a human doesn’t run and hide in dark places, because he’s something more”

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

“If you don’t want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.”

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

“It’s very possible that I could look like a kleptomaniac and a pathological liar and that’s why I keep getting hired.”

“Just because something isn’t a lie does not mean that it isn’t deceptive. A liar knows that he is a liar, but one who speaks mere portions of truth in order to deceive is a craftsman of destruction.”

“Lies don’t fix things. They don’t even make things easier, at least not in the long run. Best to tell the truth and then clean up an honest mess.”

“Lies were like acid, corrosive: They could dissolve trust in a heartbeat.”

“Lying lips are abomination to the LORD: but they that deal truly are his delight.”

“My father always told me that what’s wrong with lying is that it’s an admission of weakness. If you’re the strongest, you can afford to tell the truth.”

“Never try to destroy someone else’s life with a lie when yours can be destroyed with the truth.”

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

“No one believes a liar. Even when she’s telling the truth.”

“Some liars are so expert they deceive themselves.”

“Sometimes you can learn things from the way a person denies something. The choice of lies can be almost as helpful as the truth.”

“Stop lying to yourself. When we deny our own truth, we deny our own potential.”

“The cruelest lies are often told in silence.”

“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.”

“The secret is to know how to lie” he used to say, ” and to know when someone’s lying to you”. His father, Steve eventually decided, must have known how to lie.”

“The truly scary thing about undiscovered lies is that they have a greater capacity to diminish us than exposed ones. They erode our strength, our self-esteem, our very foundation.”

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

“Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.”

“Yeah, it never fails to amaze me how a single lie can undo an entire lifetime of good.”

“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.”

“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.”

Suffering from pathological and compulsive lying is something that can not be diagnosed on you own. There are many beliefs about it and how to treat it to be made aware of.