Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

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

We don't believe a liar even when he tells the truth.

The liar wants to be believed, but lying undermines the foundation for credibility.

The best liars are those who tell the truth most of the time.

Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.

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

A new study found that most people can't go 10 minutes without lying. But since the study took 20 minutes nobody knows what to believe.

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.

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

A liar must have a good memory. -Mendacem oportet esse memorem

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

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.

Avoid the company of a liar. And if you can't avoid him, don't believe him.

As someone who specializes in deception, I'll tell you this much: When someone insistently implores, 'Believe me,' don't. Pleading 'believe me' or 'trust me' - insisting to people that you are telling the truth - is a tell-tale sign that you probably aren't.

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.

Sometimes,” Sam says, “I can’t tell when you’re lying.” “I never lie,” I lie.

All that one gains by falsehood is, not to be believed when he speaks the truth.

Aristotle was once asked what those who tell lies gain by it. Said he - That when they speak truth they are not believed.

Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth.

A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.

I'm not a liar.

I don't tolerate liars. When somebody lies to me, that's really, like, just unbearable.

There is no point in asking a man a question until you have established whether he has any reason to lie to you.

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.