65 Liar Quotes for When You've Been Lied to and Manipulated (2021)

Looking for the best liar quotes for when you’ve been deceived?

Being lied to hurts so much. Whether you’ve been deceived by a loved one, boss, or business partner, the horrible feeling of distrust is the same.

Being a victim of deceit shatters your faith and the next time around, you find it harder to trust. However, you shouldn’t allow lies to change who you are and how you live life.

If you’ve been taken advantage of, all it means is that you’re an honest person. You can still find ways to preserve your ability to trust.

Though it might not be easy as it sounds, the first thing you can do when you’ve lied to is to forgive yourself for being fooled.

And to avoid being fooled again, don’t give a known liar the benefit of doubt.

Learn the basics of spotting a liar and you’ll be a step ahead of the game. Also, don’t be shy to verify what people tell you.

Below is our collection of inspirational, wise, and thought-provoking, liar quotes, liar sayings, and liar proverbs, collected from a variety of sources over the years.

Also, check out our selection of fake friends quotes to help you weed through those deceitful friends.

Liar Quotes for When You’ve Been Lied to and Manipulated

1. “One lie has the power to tarnish a thousand truths.” ― Al David

2. “Stupidity is to have amnesia over your own faults when the person you hate makes theirs.” ― Shannon L. Alder

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

4. “Stop falling for those who won’t raise you up in the future.” ― Michael Bassey Johnson

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

6. “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

7. “When people don’t tell you the truth what they really are saying is they don’t value you or their relationship with you enough, to be honest.” ― Shannon L. Alder

8. “But he that sows lie in the end shall not lack a harvest, and soon he may rest from toil indeed, while others reap and sow in his stead.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien

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

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

Liar quotes for when you’ve been deceived

11. “I wasn’t sure which was worse – to know you were a liar or to believe your own bullshit.” ― Eileen Cook

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

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

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

15. “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

16. “Before you call yourself a Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu or any other theology, learn to be human first.” ― Shannon L. Alder

17. “In politics, you learn how to say A mean to say B, in wisdom you learn how to say A and keep saying that.” ― Auliq Ice

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

19. “Take back your power! I wish you the wisdom to realize that the problem isn’t that they keep lying to you; it’s that you keep believing them.” ― Steve Maraboli

20. “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

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Liar quotes for when you’ve been taken advantage of

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

22. “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

23. “The problem with being a liar is you can never believe anyone else.” ― Chloe Thurlow

24. “Only fools and liars claim to know everything because the fool thinks all that he knows is everything and the liar knows there is no sufficient data to know everything” ― Nyona Matende

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

26. “When you don’t have honesty in love then there is no communication. Honesty is the improvisation of the heart; anything less is a well thought out and rehearsed the script.” ― Shannon L. Alder

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

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

29. “Never stand in the way of letting God use people’s actions, in order to solve a greater issue in the world.” ― Shannon L. Alder

30. “I don’t hate Liars. I just disrespect them, because they disrespect themselves in the first place.” ― Revaz Eristavi

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Liar quotes to help you preserve your ability to trust

31. “A coward talks to everyone but YOU.” ― Shannon L. Alder

32. “Accepting fraud from our leaders means accepting fraud in our personal lives.” ― DaShanne Stokes

33. “Thieves and liars kill indirectly, unintentionally, and with no other weapon than their tongues and malice.” ― A.E.H. Veenman

34. “Lies don’t end relationships the truth does.” ― Shannon L. Alder

35. “I do really believe that, like so many liars, there is a real substratum of truth behind her lies.” ― Agatha Christie

36. “Screaming and repeating lies makes them neither true nor more believable.” ― Cathy Burnham Martin

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

38. “Neither a fake friend nor a liar can be trusted, with a secret.” ― Ellen J. Barrier

39. “Adding more bull to bull yields bigger bull.” ― Cathy Burnham Martin

40. “The way to happiness is by the truth. Seek to be true in all things and you will have a foundation to build your future.” ― Shannon L. Alder

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Thought-provoking liar quotes

41. “We reveal most about ourselves when we speak about others.” ― Kamand Kojouri

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

44. “Hypocrites get offended by the truth.” ― Jess C. Scott

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44. “Unfortunately in today’s world a liar seems to be more reliable than a truthful honest man.” ― Munia Khan

45. “Warns, lies, liars, and mysteries everything in one place what more awesome than that??? Better check out Blindspot!” ― Deyth Banger

46. “People wear a mask of a lie so they look attractive, so be careful” ― Muhammad Saqib

47. “He, of course, is a liar, but that doesn’t really matter because, if you know liars are liars, it comes to the same thing.” ― Agatha Christie

48. “When God takes out the trash, don’t go digging back through it. Trust Him.” ― Amaka Imani Nkosazana

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

50. “When your lover is a liar, you and he have a lot in common, you’re both lying to you!” ― Susan Forward

More liar quotes and sayings

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

52. “The trust of the innocent is the liar’s most useful tool.” – Stephen King

53. “The most confused we ever get is when we’re trying to convince our heads of something our heart knows is a lie.” – Karen Marie Moning

54. “Once you place that crown of liar on your head, you can take it off again, but it leaves a stain for all time.” – Terry Goodkind

55. “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

56. “If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.” – Adolf Hitler

57. “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

58. “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

59. “A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.” – Aesop

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

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

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

63. “Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.” – Fyodor Dostoevsky

64. “If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.” – W. Somerset Maugham

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

Liar quotes to help you recognize them

66. “The world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars and the selfish hide in high places.” –Bryant H. McGill

67. “Liars need to have good memories.” –Algernon Sidney

68. “He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.” –Charles Peguy

69. “Men are liars. We’ll lie about lying if we have to. I’m an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a positive.” –Tim Allen

70. “Liars are always most disposed to swear.” –Vittorio Alfieri

71. “No relationship is perfect and people who say they don’t argue are either liars or biting their tongues all the time.” –Kym Marsh

72. “Regrets? I think everyone has regrets, and people who say they haven’t are either liars… or narcissists.” –Lee Radziwill

73. “Bands that say they don’t care about how their records sell are liars.” –Brandon Flowers

74. “The best liars lie with their eyes rather than with their words.” –Joanna Scott

75. “I think all actors are professional liars.” –Sidharth Malhotra

Liar Quotes and Sayings from Famous People

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

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

78. “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

79. “It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.” – George Washington

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

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

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

83. I never lie,” I said offhand. “At least not to those I don’t love. – Anne Rice

84. “When a man is penalized for honesty he learns to lie.” – Criss Jami

85. “The mistake ninety-nine percent of humanity made, as far as facts could see, was being ashamed of what they were; lying about it, trying to be somebody else.” – J.K. Rowling

Which of these liar quotes was your favorite?

It would be great if no friend, lover, or family member ever lied to us. However, when they do, find ways to preserve your ability to trust, and you’ll feel better about yourself.

At some point in life, everyone is the victim of a lie. We hope the liar quotes above will help you find ways to keep your trust alive.

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