Victor Hugo Quotes

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

It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.

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

The truthful man is usually a liar.

No lie can live forever.

So is darkness better than a heartfelt lie?

I lie as truthfully as I can.

You can't pray a lie -- I found that out.

The ugliest truth, in the end, was still better than the prettiest of lies.

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

A lie is profanity. A lie is the worst thing in the world. Art is the ability to tell the truth.

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.

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

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.

Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: a fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.

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

Truth never was indebted to a lie.

I am not honest.

I don't like to tell lies.

I'm not a liar.

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

Nobody can honestly say that they never lie.

Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death.

I just have an inability to lie.