Charles Oakley Quotes

You cannot play naive if you're not.

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.

Keep it simple. Tell the truth. People can smell the truth.

I'm a tell-it-like-it-is kind of person; I don't like being misled or someone not telling the truth. That upsets me.

Never underestimate the value of someone who can say, 'You make me sick.'

I think you can fool people once but you can't fool the people all the time.

I lie very little and am a very straight-forward person.

I have little time for sincerity.

I like men with honest, frank eyes. And that's the reason I cannot talk anyone who has their sunglasses on.

The same man cannot be both Friend and Flatterer.

The intention of never deceiving often exposes us to deception.

By lying, we deny others a view of the world as it is. Our dishonesty not only influences the choices they make, it often determines the choices they can make—and in ways we cannot always predict. Every lie is a direct assault upon the autonomy of those we lie to.

Give me an honest con man any day.

I'm frank, brutally frank. And even when I'm not frank, I look frank.

People trust me. I sell sincerity.

All I cared was that she had never lied. She was honest in a world just the opposite, and a cool oasis in my life. She was who she said she was, and everything Sophia, my mother, the pathologically manipulative liar, had never been.

Always be sincere, even when you don't mean it.

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

You tell me the truth, and I am hooked for life, because the one thing that you can't find nowadays is the person who is going to be absolutely honest with you.

There's something different about looking someone in the eyes and doing something dishonest to doing it over the phone or screen.

I don’t bluff, but I do act with realism.

Hide nothing. It always gets found out.

He who is dishonest with respect to speech, is dishonest in everything.

Truth is the cry of all, but the game of the few.

I looked the man in the eye and found him to be very straightforward and trustworthy.