Yvonne Strahovski Quotes

He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest.

The truthful man is usually a liar.

My own luck has been curious all my literary life; I never could tell a lie that anyone would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.

As hypocrisy is said to be the highest compliment to virtue, the art of lying is the strongest acknowledgment of the force of truth.

I am too much in love with my lies and hypocrisies not to confess them fervently.

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

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 have a hard time keeping a story straight when I tell the truth because when you start lying you have to remember what you said, and I'm not very good at that.

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

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

Put away from you a dissembling mouth.

People who are deceptive themselves have a really good ear for deception. They know when somebody's telling the truth or not, and so one of the ways around that is to always be telling the truth - or some version of it.

All I can say is anybody who's spent most of his life living a lie is not somebody I admire.

The truth is always an insult or a joke, lies are generally tastier. We love them. The nature of lies is to please. Truth has no concern for anyone's comfort

There is no such thing as a good writer and a bad liar.

You become uneasy with people in direct proportion to how many lies you have to keep track of in their presence.

But here's the thing about being honest: All the liars HATE you for it, and most of the people in the world are liars. They lie to their bosses, they lie to their families, they lie to themselves, they lie so much they don't even know they're lying anymore. If you have the courage to be honest even a little bit all those people will hate you for it, because their lie is reflected in your honesty. Oscar Wilde wasn't kidding when he said, "If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you."

If you want to say something and have people listen then you have to wear a mask. If you want to be honest then you have to live a lie.

Isn't it too bad that the great truths are all such lies.

On the whole, I should say that the person who likes to lie should never, in any circumstances, be allowed to. Leave the lying to the people who hate it. You will not find them indulging often.

I don't lie," I lied.

The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.

I lie as truthfully as I can.

A very honest woman but something given to lie