The liar Quotes

“If you wouldn't invite a thief in your house why would you allow a liar in. the only difference between the two is the thief steals your money and objects the liar steals with words by deceit of manipulation by Bonnie Zackson Koury”

“What is worse than doing evil, is being evil” (Ethics, p.67). To lie is wrong, but what is worse than the lie is the liar, for the liar contaminates everything he says, because everything he says is meant to further a cause that is false. The liar as liar has endorsed a world of falsehood and deception, and to focus only on the truth or falsity of his particular statements is to miss the danger of being caught up in his twisted world. This is why, as Bonhoeffer says, that “(i)t is worse for a liar to tell the truth than for a lover of truth to lie” (Ethics, p.67).”

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

“Everybody hates lies even the liars themselves”

“Of course, the liar often imagines that he does no harm as long as his lies go undetected.”

“Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.”

“Then the liars and swearers are fools, for there are liars and swearers enough to beat the honest men and hang up them.”

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

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

“The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.”