Amy Hempel Quotes

When I think it's good not to say the truth, I don't say anything. I don't like actors in general, they lie, they are liars, trust me.

Usually we are saying only part of the truth.

I think if you don't say something it's lying by omission. I personally think it's immoral.

You didn't tell a lie, you just left a big hole in the truth.

He who tells the truth says almost nothing.

I can't say why people lie; they just do. Everyone has their own reasons for not telling the truth.

I can't establish the veracity of what people say because only they know whether they are telling the truth. I can't look into your mind, can I?

Unfortunately, as much as I am gullible, I also hate lying. I tend to tell the truth a lot... lying just isn't worth it. But I think I'm guilty of telling people that I'm 5 minutes away when really I'm about 45 or an hour away.

I have a hard time keeping a story straight when I tell the truth because when you start lying you have to remember what you said, and I'm not very good at that.

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

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Why would anyone lie? The truth is always more colorful.

Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.

People who are deceptive themselves have a really good ear for deception. They know when somebody's telling the truth or not, and so one of the ways around that is to always be telling the truth - or some version of it.

All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.

It requires as much to tell the truth as to conceal it.

Make a habit of telling the truth, or make a habit of lying: to decide each case on its own merits is exhausting, and hardly ever worth it.

There is no such thing as bragging. You're either lying or telling the truth.

I do know that the slickest way to lie is to tell the right amount of truth--then shut up.

I know I fib a good deal. After all, a woman's charm is fifty per cent illusion, but when a thing is important I tell the truth. - Blanche Scene II

If you tell the truth, then you don't have to have a good memory

Nobody has the right to put another under such a difficulty that he must either hurt the person by telling the truth or hurt himself by telling what is not true.

It is very difficult to tell the truth.

Telling a lie is called wrong. Telling the truth is called right. Except when telling the truth is called bad manners and telling a lie is called polite.

You can't be reluctant to give up your lie and still tell the truth.