Quintilian Quotes

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

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

It is not without good reason, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.

He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake the trade of lying.

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

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

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

Liars sometimes tell the truth; they don’t tell lies all the time.

Liars ought to have good memories.

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

A lot of people are afraid to lie to me.

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

Someone who lies and someone who tells the truth are playing on opposite sides, so to speak, in the same game. Each responds to the facts as he understands them, although the response of the one is guided by the authority of the truth, while the response of the other defies that authority and refuses to meet its demands. The bullshitter ignores these demands altogether. He does not reject the authority of the truth, as the liar does, and oppose himself to it. He pays no attention to it at all. By virtue of this, bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are.

I don't lie," I lied.

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.

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

TRUTH may hurt temporarily, but LIES leave marks permanently.

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

A good liar must have a good memory.

The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.

Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.

One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie.

A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.