Frank Abagnale Quotes

I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.

Now that he has disavowed as outright lies many of the stories he told himself, it's hard to know what to make of those who still insist that David Brock had it right the first time.

A lie cannot live.

It takes good memory to keep up a lie.

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

It is a poor cause which has to be lied for regularly.

Lying can never save us from another lie.

Nobody can honestly say that they never lie.

Someone who lies about the little things will lie about the big things too.

When a politician bends the truth or a CEO breaks a promise, trust takes a beating.

It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. A person who lies is thereby responding to the truth, and he is to that extent respectful of it.

Not all teammates tell the truth.

If what is communicated is false, it can hardly be called communication.

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.

I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.

I'm a really bad liar.

What bothers me is that Jim Bakker lies. Jim Bakker knows for a fact that I was virgin.

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.

I don't like being lied to.

Surely we don’t want the President to lie, we don’t want our senators to lie, we don’t want our congressmen to lie. But sometimes they do.

… he knew the lie of silence to be as evil as the lie of speech.

A lie should be trampled on and extinguished wherever found.

Liar' is the best work I've done.

I'm the worst liar - I can't lie for my life. And I don't lie at all, because I'm the worst liar - but as a kid, I thought I was a great liar, so I would lie all the time, but everybody knew I was lying.

Lying is the rule, not the exception.