H. L. Mencken Quotes

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

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

Because no matter what you say in life, the truth will always be the truth. You know when someone is telling the truth, you look in the eyes. I have a tendency to believe people.

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

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.

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

I'm not a liar.

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

The truthful man is usually a liar.

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

We've all grown wary of being lied to online - let's face it, dudes are always exaggerating their heights - so trust is a hot commodity.

Study after study shows that people are much less likely to lie to a person they consider to be honest.

I'm not a liar; I'm a truth teller.

I don't have any reason to lie about anything.

There's a simple thing we always say: if you always tell the truth, you will never have to remember what you said.

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

I don't lie," I lied.

Through language, we can tell the truth and hear the truth spoken, just as we can be deceived. Sometimes it's a painful realization: we can be lied to. As I write, I think of myself as putting my eye under oath, so that what I write is the truth about my characters.

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.

You cannot tell an audience a lie. They know it before you do; before it's out of your mouth, they know it's a lie.

I never lie. I believe everything I say, so it's not a lie.

For me, the greatest fault would be to tell somebody something I'm not.

Sincerity: if you can fake it, you've got it made.

There is no point in asking a man a question until you have established whether he has any reason to lie to you.