Thomas Griffith Quotes

The gain of lying is nothing else but not to be trusted of any, nor to be believed when we say the truth.

The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

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

We don't believe a liar even when he tells the truth.

Whatever convenience may be thought to be in falsehood and dissimulation, it is soon over; but the inconvenience of it is perpetual, because it brings a man under everlasting jealousy and suspicion, so that he is not believed when he speaks the truth, nor trusted when perhaps he means honestly.

I am always afraid of a fool. One cannot be sure that he is not a knave as well.

If a person lies to you about what's in their bank account, they'll lie to you about other things as well.

... either a liar or incompetent.

There is a lot of spinning and a lot of lying in our times—in politics, in government, in sports and everywhere. It’s gotten to the point where … you no longer believe the first version of anything. It wasn’t always that way. I guess it started for me with Vietnam, when the establishment felt it had to lie to justify a policy that as it turned out was never going to work.

I know what it feels like to lie to people. I know what it feels like for people not to trust you.

I get really upset when I'm around liars.

A lie is like a cat: you need to stop it before it gets out the door or it’s really hard to catch.

Never trust a man who lays his hand on his heart when he assures you of anything.

Enemies' promises were made to be broken.

Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.

As anyone who's ever contracted it knows, lies are an infectious disease. They slip under the almond slivers of your fingernails and into your bloodstream.

He that once deceives is ever suspected.

A new study found that most people can't go 10 minutes without lying. But since the study took 20 minutes nobody knows what to believe.

We assume that all statements must be mild inversions of the truth, because it's too weird to imagine people who aren't casually lying, pretty much all the time.

The liar suffers twice: he neither believes nor is believed.

A liar is not believed even though he tell the truth.

Who you gonna believe-me or your lying eyes?

People never believe you.

Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth.

One of my weaknesses happens to be lying, and I could tell you that I'm never going to lie again in my life, but that would be a lie.