Christiane Amanpour Quotes

Certainly today we are incredibly tolerant of untruth.

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

As anyone who's ever contracted it knows, lies are an infectious disease. They slip under the almond slivers of your fingernails and into your bloodstream.

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

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.

I'm not big on lying. I don't like that at all.

The truthful man is usually a liar.

Stop lying about my record.

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

I'm not a fan of people making up lies, and I do feel I owe it to people to know what the truth is.

We've all grown wary of being lied to online - let's face it, dudes are always exaggerating their heights - so trust is a hot commodity.

I don't lie very well!

I'm not a particularly good liar.

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

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

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

A big lie is more plausible than truth.

Truth is a risky proposition. It's the nature of mediocre human beings to believe that lies are necessary, that they serve a purpose, that truth is subversive, that candor is dangerous, that the very scaffold of communal life is supported by lies.

A man who lies, thinking it is the truth, is an honest man, and a man who tells the truth, believing it to be a lie, is a liar.

Truth is always consistent with itself, and needs nothing to help it out. It is always near at hand, and sits upon our lips, and is ready to drop out before we are aware; whereas a lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack; and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.

The inability to lie is far from the love of truth.

If you're not gonna tell the truth, then why start talking?

The truth is a precious commodity. That's why I use it so sparingly.

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.