Kristin Chenoweth Quotes

You become uneasy with people in direct proportion to how many lies you have to keep track of in their presence.

I'm not smart enough to lie.

I usually don't agree with what I say very much. I'm an awful liar.

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.

The insincerity of man-all men are liars, partial or hiders of facts, half tellers of truths, shirks, moral sneaks. When a merely honest man appears he is a comet-his fame is eternal-needs no genius, no talent-mere honesty

When you fail to tell the truth, you are kept bound to the past in ways that devastate your soul.

I'm a bad liar; I don't know what to say backstage.

I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.

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

I wish to Christ I could make up a really great lie. Sometimes, after an interview, I say to myself, 'Man, you were so honest - can't you have some fun? Can't you do some really down and dirty lying?' But the puritan in me thinks that if I tell a lie, I'll be punished.

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

If I hear a lie in my life with my children, with my wife, my work, my audiences, I want to annihilate myself, vaporize myself and wipe myself off the face of the earth.

I'm hopeless at telling lies. I can attempt strategic ones in order not to hurt people's feelings, but then I'll blow it 10 minutes later.

I've told lots of lies in my life. I try not to lie, but I still do. It's very difficult to get to 37 and not be ashamed of something you've done. But I think your life is easier, ultimately, if you're honest.

We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.

Put away from you a dissembling mouth.

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

Not every time there's a disagreement is somebody lying.

I doubt he knows himself when he’s not telling the truth.

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

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

An untruth must be spoken, where need requires. For whether men lie, or say true, it is with one and the same object. Men lie, because they think to gain by deceiving others; and speak the truth, because they expect to get something by their true speaking, and to be trusted afterwards in more important matters. Thus, though their conduct is so opposite, the end of both is alike. If there were no gain to be got, your true-speaking man would tell untruths as much as your liar, and your liar would tell the truth as much as your true-speaking man.

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

I chose to compromise my principles. I broke my promise to always tell the truth.