James Carville Quotes

Through language, we can tell the truth and hear the truth spoken, just as we can be deceived. Sometimes it's a painful realization: we can be lied to. As I write, I think of myself as putting my eye under oath, so that what I write is the truth about my characters.

There is no such thing as a good writer and a bad liar.

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

I've always operated under the notion that audiences don't always know when they're being lied to, but that they always know when they're being told the truth.

A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself.

If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.

I'm a really rotten liar. Generally, if I've tried to pull off a lie, it hasn't worked out to my advantage.

I'm not a liar.

There's one way to find out if a man is honest - ask him. If he says, 'Yes,' you know he is a crook.

I might lie a lot but never in my lyrics.

Because no matter what you say in life, the truth will always be the truth. You know when someone is telling the truth, you look in the eyes. I have a tendency to believe people.

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

If you spend a lot of time lying to people, you think a lot about what the truth means.

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

I never lie to my fans.

Telling lies does not work in advertising.

The truthful man is usually a liar.

I don't do much lying in real life because I don't get away with it.

Washington could not tell a lie; Nixon could not tell the truth; Reagan cannot tell the difference.

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.

By and large, our leaders don’t lie to us.

If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.

Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.

I'm the worst liar - I can't lie for my life. And I don't lie at all, because I'm the worst liar - but as a kid, I thought I was a great liar, so I would lie all the time, but everybody knew I was lying.