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Definition of Liar

Liar

A person who knowingly utters falsehood; one who lies.

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Liar Quotations

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
Abraham Lincoln

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.
Mark Twain

Success has always been a great liar.
Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
Jerome K. Jerome

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

I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life.
J. D. Salinger

Men should pledge themselves to nothing; for reflection makes a liar of their resolution.
Sophocles

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

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

I love women, but I feel like you can't trust some of them. Some of them are liars, you know? Like I was in the park and I met this girl, she was cute and she had a dog. And I went up to her, we started talking. She told me her dog's name. Then I said, 'Does he bite?' She said, 'No.' And I said, 'Oh yeah? Then how does he eat?' Liar.
Demetri Martin

I like women, but you can't always trust them. Some of them are big liars, like this one woman I met who had a dog. I asked her her dog's name and then I asked, 'Does he bite?' and she said, 'No.' And I said, 'So how does he eat?' Liar!
Demetri Martin

Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.
Robert Green Ingersoll

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

Let every man be true and every god a liar.
Samuel Butler

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.
A. A. Milne

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

I'd rather not have anything than be a liar.
Alicia Keys

Anyone who says they're not afraid at the time of a hurricane is either a fool or a liar, or a little bit of both.
Anderson Cooper

"Let God be true but every man a liar" is the language of true faith.
Aiden Wilson Tozer

Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen.
Maimonides

A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.
Aesop

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

It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.
Horace

I think Ralph Nader is the biggest liar in American politics when he said it didn't matter who was president.
James Carville

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

I'm a bad liar; I don't know what to say backstage.
Uta Hagen

A liar is always lavish of oaths.
Pierre Corneille

I'm getting better now, but I used to be incredibly awkward with girls. I think any guy who says 'I've never had an awkward moment with a girl' is a liar.
Daniel Radcliffe

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Liar Translations

liar in French is menteur
liar in Italian is bugiardo
liar in Spanish is mentiroso

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