Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

Related Quotes

Samuel Butler

It is the unconscious liar that is the greatest liar.

Character |

David Mallet, also David Malloch

The biggest liar in the world is They Say.

Character | World |

Hugh Latimer

How necessary it is for a liar to have a good memory.

Character | Good | Memory |

Josiah Royce

A liar is a man who willfully misplaces his ontological predicates.

Character | Man |

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

There is something so beautiful in trust that even the most hardened liar must needs feel a certain respect for those who confide in him.

Respect | Trust | Wisdom | Respect |

Friedrich Nietzsche, fully Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.

Wisdom |

William Shenstone

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

Ends | Falsehood | Truth | Wisdom |

Jules de Goncourt, fully Jules Huot de Goncourt

The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite! There are only two great currents in the history of mankind: the baseness which makes conservatives and the envy which makes revolutionaries.

Baseness | Envy | History | Mankind |

William Shenstone

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

Ends | Falsehood | Truth |

Aesop NULL

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

Truth | Will |

Albert Camus

Sometimes it is easier to see clearly into a liar than into a person telling the truth. Truth, like light, is blinding. Falsehood, on the other hand, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

Falsehood | Light | Object | Truth |

Hannah Arendt

The loss of certainty of truth has ended in a new, entirely unprecedented zeal for truthfulness - as though man could afford to be a liar only so long as he was certain of the unchallengable existence of truth and objective reality, which surely would survive and defeat all his lies.

Defeat | Existence | Man | Reality | Truth | Zeal | Loss |

Hilaire Belloc, fully Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc

The worst sort of hypocrite and liar is the man who lies to himself in order to feel at ease.

Man | Order |

Latin Proverbs

A liar better have a good memory.

Better | Good | Memory |

Lord Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

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.

Age | Better | Fear | Heart | Will | Old |

Cicero, fully Marcus Tullius Cicero, anglicized as Tully NULL

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

Truth |