Liar

Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar.

— J. Edgar Hoover

A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.

— William Shenstone

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

— Aesop

Anyone who said he wasn't afraid during the civil rights movement was either a liar or without imagination. I was scared all the time. My hands didn't shake but inside I was shaking.

— James L. Farmer

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

A writer of fiction is really... a congenital liar who invents from his own knowledge or that of other men.

— Ernest Hemingway

Honesty is of God and dishonesty of the devil was a liar from the beginning.

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

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

— Robert Green Ingersoll

If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.

— Logan Pearsall Smith

I have been known for some time as a person who speaks the truth and speaks it strongly. I have always called a liar and a hypocrite.

— Cindy Sheehan