Denis Diderot Quotes

Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death. I can work out a good character much faster than anyone can lie me out of it

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.

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

The truth just happens - lies take time to make.

Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: a fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.

No lie ever reaches old age.

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

Truth never was indebted to a lie.

I am not honest.

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

The only thing that I have is the truth, so the only thing I fear is a lie.

I'm not a liar.

I love the truth. Tell the truth and live the truth, because we've seen enough lies and look what it's doing.

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

Ring out the false, ring in the true.

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

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance.

I'm a really bad liar.

The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.

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

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

The truthful man is usually a liar.

Put away from you a dissembling mouth.