Albert Camus Quotes

If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, he would draw his hat over his eyes.

Where Nature's end of language is declin'd, And men talk only to conceal the mind.

Deception by an omission of the truth is as bad as a lie.

Arguments, like men, are often pretenders.

And this wasn’t lying, not really. It was leaving out.

She turned to Frizz. "So you understand the problem? You can't let Tally know about Radical Honesty. There's no telling what she'll do if she finds out you could ruin her plans." Frizz's eyebrows rose. "So let me get this straight, Aya-chan. You want me, a person who can't lie, to lie about the fact that I can't lie?" "We need another plan," Hiro said.

Dissimulation, even the most innocent in its nature, is ever productive of embarrassment; whether the design is evil or not artifice is always dangerous and almost inevitably disgraceful.

People had figured out all sorts of ways to make things seem different than they truly were.

A bad artist almost always tries to conceal his incompetence by whooping up a new formula.

Hypocrisy is no cheap vice; nor can our natural temper be masked for many years together.

A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.

But keeping secrets is a discipline. I never use to think of myself as a good liar, but after having had some practice I had adopted the prevaricator's credo that one doesn't so much fabricate a lie as marry it. A successful lie cannot be brought into this world and capriciously abandoned; like any committed relationship it must be maintained, and with far more devotion than the truth, which carries on being carelessly true without any help. By contrast, my lie needed me as much as I needed it, and so demanded the constancy of wedlock: Till death do us part.

Deceit is a kind of garment that conceals the soul. It might even be compared to a whole wardrobe, so many are its guises.

The secret is to know how to lie" he used to say, " and to know when someone's lying to you". His father, Steve eventually decided, must have known how to lie.

Knavery's plain face is never seen till used.

Now, I know from experience that the trouble with one lie is that it usually takes more lies to cover it up. And if you don't watch out, you wind up telling lies to cover up the lies that are covering up the original lie.

Within every elaborate lie, a kernel of truth.

I try to get rid of people who always confidently answer questions about which they don't have any real knowledge.

Truth can remain silent. Lies must be spoken.

A small lie needs a bodyguard of bigger lies to protect it.

Vice knows [its] ugly, so [it] puts on [a] mask.

For a long time I have not said what I believed, nor do I ever believe what I say, and if indeed sometimes I do happen to tell the truth, I hide it among so many lies that it is hard to find.

I don't like it when someone can look you in the eye and lie to you, or pretend that they're more than you.

I was surrounded by phonies...They were coming in the goddam window.

Among other common lies, we have the silent lie - the deception which one conveys by simply keeping still and concealing the truth. Many obstinate truth-mongers indulge in this dissipation, imagining that if they speak no lie, they lie not at all.