Quintus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Promising is not giving, but serves to content fools.

Many people would rather have fine words and false hopes than the truth which is unacceptable.

Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made.

Voters never grow weary of illusory promises.

If you make a promise, the thing is still uncertain and depends on a future day .. but if you refuse, you alienate people to a certainty and immediately.

Promise everything to anyone, unless clear obligation prevents it. Only live up to those promises which are of advantage to you.

When people talk, they lay lines on each other, do a lot of role playing, sidestep, shilly-shally and engage in all manner of vagueness and innuendo. We do this and expect others to do it, yet at the same time we profess to long for the plain truth, for people to say what they mean, simple as that. Such hypocrisy is a human universal.

Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

What's important is promising something to the people, not actually keeping those promises. The people have always lived on hope alone.

It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance.

Put away from you a dissembling mouth.

Yesterday's promise, like tomorrow's never comes.

If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these acceptance speeches there wouldn't be any inducement to go to heaven.

People tend to say a lot of things that are not true.

No wonder Americans hate politics when, year in and year out, they hear politicians make promises that won't come true because they don't even mean them -- campaign fantasies that win elections but don't get nations moving again.

I cannot stand dishonesty among people, the tendency to prevaricate.

What's so great about the truth? Try lying for a change, it's the currency of the world.

If someone's lying about something small, you don't know what else they're lying about. I'm a big girl, I can handle the truth - even if it's not good news.

You never monkey with the truth.

It takes good memory to keep up a lie.

I don't like being lied to, so I only lie about the stupid things. White lies, basically.

Never promise more than you can perform.

Politicians like to tell people what they want to hear - and what they want to hear is what won't happen.

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

Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.