James Acaster Quotes

I have no problem twisting the facts if it's the only way I can be true to the moment.

A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.

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.

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

I'm a really bad liar.

The camera cannot lie. But it can be an accessory to untruth.

In my lifetime I have never seen such a volume of deceiving and dissembling.

The French are simply incapable of telling the truth.

Liars do look you in the eye. They do not always stutter, stammer, blush or fidget.

Lying does exist in crazy forms.

Men lie the most. Men lie all the time.

I was one of the most brilliant liars as a child.

I was a good liar as a child.

Not only do I lie, I take real pleasure in lying, in the transmission of magic effects.

The English language has 112 words for deception, according to one count, each with a different shade of meaning: collusion, fakery, malingering, self-deception, confabulation, prevarication, exaggeration, denial.

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.

I know how easy it is for one to stay well within moral, ethical, and legal bounds through the skillful use of words - and to thereby spin, sidestep, circumvent, or bend a truth completely out of shape. To that extent, we are all liars on numerous occasions.

Anyone who claims to be good at lying is obviously bad at lying. Thus - as a writer myself - I cannot comment on whether or not writers are exceptionally good liars, because whatever I said would actually mean its complete opposite.

She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

I was on a train of lies. I couldn't jump off.

For me, the facts in anything are always secondary. You don't lie convincingly with the truth. You lie convincingly with being a good liar.

Euphemism is a euphemism for lying.

I know of no sentence that can induce such immediate and brazen lying as the one that begins, 'Have you read - .'

I couldn't tell the truth if my life depended on it.