Jeanette Winterson Quotes

I won't tolerate lying.

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

In love, I've been a deceiver. But I realized being honest is so much easier than lying and being deceitful.

It matters to people that the president tell them the truth.

I cannot stand dishonesty among people, the tendency to prevaricate.

You can fool people some of the time, but you can't fool them all of the time.

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Realizing that people should lie when they do makes me a little more open-minded, a little more tolerant, when my child or my partner lies.

Lies kill love, it's been said. Well, what about frankness, then.

If someone's lying about something small, you don't know what else they're lying about. I'm a big girl, I can handle the truth - even if it's not good news.

Honest communication is built on truth and integrity and upon respect of the one for the other.

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

No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.

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

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

I'm honest, I'm fair and I'm sure, as time progresses, those who don't believe that will find it to be true.

I've always operated under the notion that audiences don't always know when they're being lied to, but that they always know when they're being told the truth.

In this play we're dealing with relative truths - who's lying, who's telling the truth. But underneath that, Ed and I have hit this deeper level of intimacy between old friends that comes out in the play.

I never lied to a person in my life; my kids didn't, either.

I suppose everyone tells little white lies. Quite often they're necessary to make someone feel better or prevent feelings from being hurt. Whoppers? No, that's dangerous and they'll boomerang.

A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself.

It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.

I can take any truth; just don't lie to me.

I don't debate with liars.