Holly Black Quotes

The truthful man is usually a liar.

I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.

Everyone seems to be running against a liar, but nobody seems to be one. Odd - I mean, the math doesn't work out.

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

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.

Put away from you a dissembling mouth.

Fakery in allegiance to the truth.

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

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.

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

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

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

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.

I don't lie very well!

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

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

You become uneasy with people in direct proportion to how many lies you have to keep track of in their presence.

I lie as truthfully as I can.

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

I never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.

I never lie- except for the few times I do in fact lie, but it's never intentional, and i'm totally telling the truth right now" She raised her right hand "promise".

Truth is as straight as an arrow, while a lie swivels like a snake.

All that one gains by falsehood is, not to be believed when he speaks the truth.

TRUTH may hurt temporarily, but LIES leave marks permanently.

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