The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.
Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion.
Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth.
The price that one pays for refusing to act on the truth as one sees it, is to be led to believe untruth to avoid guilt.
Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.
The best liars lie with their eyes rather than with their words. This might put writers at a disadvantage.
He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.
Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.
The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.
There is no lie that a man will not believe; and there is no man who does not believe many lies; and there is no man who believes only lies.