Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Quotes

Oh.' I shot upright. 'I was in Mongolia.' Note to self: learn to be a less extreme liar.

People are more likely to believe a big lie than a small one.

He's the kind of liar who totally forgets what he told you the last time, but he believes every single lie with such conviction that sometimes he can convince you of it.

No one believes a liar. Even when she's telling the truth.

There is no such thing as bragging. You're either lying or telling the truth.

For the record, I don't expect you to believe any of this. Not really. I'm a liar by trade, after all; albeit, I like to think, an honest liar.

The liar suffers twice: he neither believes nor is believed.

Folks will say anything, and next time round they'll believe it.

Well, I always talk about how I used to work at an insane asylum and stuff, which is true, but to be honest, I just make crap up more than anything else.

The fact about himself that the liar hides is that he is attempting to lead us away from a correct apprehension of reality; we are not to know that he wants us to believe something he supposes to be false. The fact about himself that the bullshitter hides, on the other hand, is that the truth-values of his statements are of no central interest to him . . . He does not care whether the things he says describe reality correctly. He just picks them out, or makes them up, to suit his purpose.

Being a practiced liar doesn't mean you have a powerful imagination. Many good liars have no imagination at all; it's that which gives their lies such wide-eyed conviction.

People never have confidence in a Big Talker. They know his statements must be cut down, but they can never tell how much.

The trouble with a liar is he can't remember what he said.

Do I really have moves like Jagger? F**king A, no, I don’t. But I was going to tell everybody that I did and hoped they believed me.

You can boast about anything if it's all you have. Maybe the less you have, the more you are required to boast.

She wants to believe my excuses so bad. Every time I lie, she wants to believe me so much.

the best lies to tell are the ones people want to believe

I don't believe any Western journalists, quite frankly. I believe they're liars until proven otherwise.

I shouldn't believe anything I say, if I were you-and that includes what I just told you.

Truth is sacred; and if you tell the truth too often nobody will believe it.

Are you insinuatin' that my daughter is a liar?" "Oh, no, not at all. I'm saying your daughter is a liar. Surely you can appreciate the difference.

Everyone seems to be running against a liar, but nobody seems to be one. Odd - I mean, the math doesn't work out.

A liar is not believed even though he tell the truth.

So easy are men to be drawn to believe any thing, from such men as have gotten credit with them; and can with gentleness and dexterity take hold of their fear and ignorance.

Even a liar tells a hundred truths to one lie; he has to, to make the lie good for anything.