Quintilian Quotes

Liars need to have good memories.

It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory.

A good memory is needed after one has lied.

Liars ought to have good memories.

It takes good memory to keep up a lie.

Liars are always most disposed to swear.

You get so used to lying that after a while it’s hard to remember what the truth is.

I've become very conscious of how easy it is for people to lie.

A liar is always lavish of oaths.

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

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

Anybody who says they are a good liar obviously is not, because any legitimately savvy liar would always insist they're honest about everything.

To be a liar, you've got to have a great memory, and I don't have a memory.

A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie.

I don't use the word 'lying' easily.

People who are lying are, understandably, more worried about being believed, so they work harder - too hard, as it were - at being believable.

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

Men are liars. We'll lie about lying if we have to. I'm an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a positive.

I can't say why people lie; they just do. Everyone has their own reasons for not telling the truth.

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

If you're lying, you're lying.

Every word she writes is a lie, including and and the.

I'm a really bad liar.

I don't like being lied to.

… a man well known for his congenital inability to tell the truth