Henry David Thoreau Quotes

It only takes one lie to taint your entire testimony.

A new study found that most people can't go 10 minutes without lying. But since the study took 20 minutes nobody knows what to believe.

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.

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

Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth.

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

I'm not a liar.

Let every man be true and every god a liar.

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

You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.

The truthful man is usually a liar.

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

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

I don't lie," I lied.

You can create many lies from Truth, but you cannot create any truths from lies.

It only takes one lie to taint your entire testimony in a court of law. Honesty is a vital part of having a good reputation.

He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake the trade of lying.

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

TRUTH may hurt temporarily, but LIES leave marks permanently.

A liar is not believed even though he tell the truth.

Even a liar tells a hundred truths to one lie; he has to, to make the lie good for anything.

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

A liar is always lavish of oaths.

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.