Nostalgia is a seductive liar.
George Ball

One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life.
Henry Miller

Sir, you have tasted two whole worms; you have hissed all my mystery lectures and been caught fighting a liar in the quad; you will leave by the next town drain.
W. A. Spooner

Success has always been a great liar.
Friedrich Nietzsche

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
Samuel Butler

The day Dick Cheney is going to run for president, I'll kill myself. All we need is another liar... I think he'd like to run, but it would be a sad day for the country if he does.
Helen Thomas

The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.
Lord Chesterfield

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

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

The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
Jean Cocteau

The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow.
Billy Sunday

The three-year-old who lies about taking a cookie isn't really a liar after all. He simply can't control his impulses. He then convinces himself of a new truth and, eager for your approval, reports the version that he knows will make you happy.
Cathy Rindner Tempelsman

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.
Hannah Arendt

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.
Stephen King

To be able to write a play a man must be sensitive, imaginative, naive, gullible, passionate; he must be something of an imbecile, something of a poet, something of a liar, something of a damn fool.
Robert E. Sherwood

When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.
Isaac Bashevis Singer