Margery Allingham Quotes

I'm see-through. And I'm the worst liar of all time.

I pefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart.

Honesty I can take. Lies I get upset about.

I am what I am and I'm a horrible liar. I can't do it. I'm just very candid.

If people could be as honest as animals, what a different world it would be.

While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive.

If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, 'Tell the truth.' If I got three more words, I'd add, 'All the time.'

Boys wear their hearts on their sleeves. Even when they're trying to pull one over on you they're so transparent. Like men.

It's real easy to manufacture what you think the people want to hear. But that's not very honest.

Be sure that you speak with unfeigned lips.

It is such a relief to be told the truth.

I am, by nature, an honest person. I wear my emotions on my sleeve. There is no 'behind closed doors' with me.

I'm not good at hiding my feelings. I'm also not good at lying. I'm very open about everything.

I'd rather tell you how I really feel.

Sometimes I think I've been too honest, and other times, too explicit.

I am not honest.

I don't do interviews under false pretenses.

That's a wonderful thing, because one of the primary qualities of a good performance is honesty.

There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.

Most style is not honest enough.

Let's face it. I'm an open book.

I'm trusting. I don't assume people lie to me.

In order to be transparent, you really have to be completely honest and open, so that's how I've lived my life, and that's where I am now. I am completely transparent. There's nothing that you can't ask me and nothing I won't talk about.

I'm just a real person and I tell it like it is. I don't have a lot of secrets, which has been a fault of mine.