Jerome K. Jerome Quotes

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

Don't tell lies, ever. No matter what - not even little white lies.

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

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

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

The truthful man is usually a liar.

Falsehood and delusion are allowed in no case whatsoever. But, as in the exercise of all the virtues, there is an economy of truth.

If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.

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.

Truth never was indebted to a lie.

I am not honest.

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

I don't like to tell lies.

I'm not a liar.

Nobody can honestly say that they never lie.

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

I'm almost incapable of lying. I'd be a terrible spy.

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.

The good thing is that I'm always honest.

Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.

Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.

Let him say what is true, let him say what is pleasing, let him utter no disagreeable truth, and let him utter no agreeable falsehood; that is the eternal law.

Liars sometimes tell the truth; they don’t tell lies all the time.

The foundation of morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying.

There is no truth in him, and men who cannot tell the truth are not to be trusted either in public or private life.