Jules Renard Quotes

I don't lie," I lied.

Put away from you a dissembling mouth.

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

I am sincere, ma petite, even when I lie.

I lie as truthfully as I can.

I am not honest.

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.

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

The truthful man is usually a liar.

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

Fakery in allegiance to the truth.

It might be said that the pose of absolute honesty is the most dishonest one of all.

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.

All I can say is anybody who's spent most of his life living a lie is not somebody I admire.

There's freedom in being rigorously honest. I lied all my life.

I'm not a particularly good liar.

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

Not many people are true, fake as the lies they tell

You can't pray a lie -- I found that out.

It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.

Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.

I'll tell you something that's completely true - you can, as a man, obtain everything you want with the truth. If you lie, first of all you've got to be a very good lying actor, which is tres difficile. And it's going to give you poison inside the body.

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

You never monkey with the truth.