Charles M. Blow Quotes

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

The gain of lying is nothing else but not to be trusted of any, nor to be believed when we say the truth.

A lie cannot live.

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

Not all teammates tell the truth.

If what is communicated is false, it can hardly be called communication.

Liar' is the best work I've done.

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

I don't lie," I lied.

As anyone who's ever contracted it knows, lies are an infectious disease. They slip under the almond slivers of your fingernails and into your bloodstream.

LIAR, n. One who tells an unpleasant truth.

He who has once deviated from the truth, usually commits perjury with as little scruple as he would tell a lie.

For peace of mind, I will lie about any thing at any time.

Truth is as straight as an arrow, while a lie swivels like a snake.

People do peculiar things in life and they do for whatever reason but I think one of the greatest crimes in life is when you lie.

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

A small lie, if it actually is a lie, condemns a man as much as a big and black falsehood. If a man will deliberately cheat to the amount of a single cent, give him opportunity and he would cheat to any amount.

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 liar is not believed even though he tell the truth.

I said Ted Cruz has been lying because if you say something that isn't true, and you say it over and over again, and you know that it's not true, there's no other word for it.

But maybe half a lie is worse than a real lie.

In the end a lie is a lie.

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

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