Edgar Davids Quotes

The truth just happens - lies take time to make.

The truth is always an insult or a joke, lies are generally tastier. We love them. The nature of lies is to please. Truth has no concern for anyone's comfort

For this is the most civil sort of lie That can be given to a man's face. I now Say what I think.

Only a lie that wasn't ashamed of itself could possibly succeed.

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

I gave them all the truth and none of the honesty.

Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.

With other people, Hilly hands out lies like the Presbyterians hand out guilt, but it's our own silent agreement, this strict honesty, perhaps the one thing that has kept us friends

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.

You people are telling me what you think I want to know. I want to know what is actually happening.

The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.

It's real easy to manufacture what you think the people want to hear. But that's not very honest.

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

I am not honest.

I abhor hypocrisy.

I don't debate with liars.

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

Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.

Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it?

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

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

If what is communicated is false, it can hardly be called communication.

It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance.