Lord Acton Quotes

And I'm the worst liar of all time.

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.

What would you think if I told you that I wasn’t an Allomancer?” Sazed asked. “I’d think that you were lying,” Vin said. “Have you known me to lie before?” “The best liars are those who tell the truth most of the time.

I've always operated under the notion that audiences don't always know when they're being lied to, but that they always know when they're being told the truth.

The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth.

I just have an inability to lie.

Because no matter what you say in life, the truth will always be the truth. You know when someone is telling the truth, you look in the eyes. I have a tendency to believe people.

The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.

It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance.

Sworn to no party, Of no sect am I; I won't keep quiet And I will not lie.

There is no truth in him, and men who cannot tell the truth are not to be trusted either in public or private life.

Have you weaned yourself of your off-putting proclivity for not telling the truth/

That's the part I kept trying to say on Queen Radio: I don't have to believe you because you're saying it. I'm not saying you're a liar, I learned that long ago too. There's a big difference between you're a liar and I don't believe you.

People can hold any opinion that they want on any subject that they choose. Just don't proactively lie to people. It's a simple request, really, and one that we don't hear nearly enough.

I can't stand lying. I can't stand liars.

I'm not a liar; I'm a truth teller.

No lie can live forever.

There never was a liar that had not a spot in him where he could not help admiring truth.

I'm not smart enough to lie.

Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel, and they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life.

It is worse for a liar to tell the truth than for a lover of truth to lie.... There is a truth which is of Satan. Its essence is that under the semblance of truth it denies everything that is real. It lives upon hatred of the real world which is created and loved by God.

The reason he [Jimmy Carter] says he never lies is because he thinks the truth originates with him.

A man who lies, thinking it is the truth, is an honest man, and a man who tells the truth, believing it to be a lie, is a liar.

I'd rather get bad news from an honest man than lies from a flatterer.