Giacomo Casanova Quotes

A lie told well is just as good as the truth.

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.

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

You cannot 'rationalize' what is not rational to begin with - as if lying were called 'truthization.' There is no way to obtain more truth for a proposition by bribery, flattery, or the most passionate argument - you can make more people believe the proposition, but you cannot make it more true.

The truthful man is usually a liar.

… he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false, is guilty of falsehood; and the accidental truth of the assertion, does not justify or excuse him.

Politicians aren't special. They lie the same way we all do, revealing their true nature under pressure.

I don't lie," I lied.

Half-truths can be as deceptive as outright lies.

You can create many lies from Truth, but you cannot create any truths from lies.

You take the lies out of him, and he'll shrink to the size of your hat; you take the malice out of him, and he'll disappear.

That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright, But a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight.

Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.

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

Never tell a lie when you can bullshit your way through it

In my latter years I've decided that there's too much to keep track of when you go into the lying game. That becomes stressful and it's not for me anymore.

Some people will lie to you because they mean to. Others will do it to tell you what you want to hear.

Anybody can make something up and have it sound believable. The hard part is remembering all the lies you've told, and all the people you've told them to, and then living the lies that have become your life.

All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?

You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.

Put away from you a dissembling mouth.

Avoid the company of a liar. And if you can't avoid him, don't believe him.

It's best not to appear to believe what you say but to believe what you say.

The people wish to be deceived; let them be deceived.

I'll never tell a lie. I'll never make a misleading statement.