Charles Bukowski Quotes

I am not honest.

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

The truthful man is usually a liar.

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

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

Don't lie if you don't have to.

I don't lie," I lied.

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

As hypocrisy is said to be the highest compliment to virtue, the art of lying is the strongest acknowledgment of the force of truth.

A lie is profanity. A lie is the worst thing in the world. Art is the ability to tell the truth.

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

For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.

I don't like to tell lies.

Don't tell lies, ever. No matter what - not even little white lies.

Nobody can honestly say that they never lie.

I just have an inability to lie.

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

If you spend a lot of time lying to people, you think a lot about what the truth means.

It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.

Put away from you a dissembling mouth.

Falsehood and delusion are allowed in no case whatsoever. But, as in the exercise of all the virtues, there is an economy of truth.

Certainly today we are incredibly tolerant of untruth.

He who does not need to lie is proud of not being a liar.

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

If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.