49 Quotes About Liars and Cheaters

On any given day, the average person can lie from 10 to 200 times. How to spot a liar takes skill. This can also be counter-intuitive. Here is a look at some of the most notable quotes about liars and cheaters that prove to be worthy.

“Always be truthful and you will have fewer visits from regret, guilt or fear.”

“And a charge of lying against someone whom you have always found truthful is a very serious thing; a very serious thing indeed.”

“At times to be silent is to lie. You will win because you have enough brute force. But you will not convince.”

“Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.”

“But mothers lie. It’s in the job description.”

“But you can’t make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can’t last.”

“Cheating and lying aren’t struggles, they’re reasons to break up.”

“Don’t forget that we lawyers, we’re a higher breed of intellect, and so it’s our privilege to lie. It’s as clear as day.”

“Half the lies they tell about me aren’t true.”

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

“He lies to himself. If Eugenides talked in his sleep, he’d lie then, too.”

“I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.”

“I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.”

“If a man, who says he loves you, won’t tell you the details of a private conversation between him and another woman you can be sure he is not protecting your heart.”

“If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.”

“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.”

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

“It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.”

“It seemed there was no end at all to the lies a person could tell, once she got started.”

“Lying is the most fun a woman can have without taking her clothes off.”

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

“Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.”

“My ability to make up lies on the spot chills me as much as it saves me.”

“My shining dishonesty will be the salvation of me.”

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

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

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

“Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.”

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

“Telling one lie almost always requires another, and before the storyteller knows it, they will be caught inside of their own web.”

“The more you believe, the more you’ll be leaving you, when what you believed turns out to be just lies. Or unjust lies. Or any lies, anyway.”

“The real promise in too many promises is a promise that I’m going to be disappointed.”

“The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.”

“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 thing about lying to your parents is, you have to do it to protect them. It’s for their own good.”

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

“The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.”

“There are three types of lies — lies, damn lies, and statistics.”

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

“There was a distinction between lying and telling half-truths, but it was a very narrow one.”

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

“Those who are capable of tyranny are capable of perjury to sustain it.”

“To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.”

“Truth is as straight as an arrow, while a lie swivels like a snake.”

“When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.”

“When witnesses concoct lies, they often miss the obvious.”

“Within every elaborate lie, a kernel of truth.”

“Writers of fiction embellish reality almost without knowing it.”

Some people believe once a liar and cheater, always a liar and cheater. However the act of forgiveness is the greatest gift you can give another human being.