Jonathan Carroll Quotes

Onstage, nothing is as important as truth, nothing. As soon as you lie, they know it.

It's so much easier to be truthful. Maybe I'm just too lazy to lie.

I try not to lie to people - the only way to control the way you're perceived is to tell the truth.

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.

Telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

I told the truth, I didn't come to fool you

It is better to disappoint people with the truth than to appease them with a lie.

No. It's actually not okay. And I hate when people say that, when they say it's okay even though it's not. It's better to tell the truth.

Always tell the truth. That way you don't have to remember what you said.

I never lie," I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love.

There is nothing that is going to make people hate you more, and love you more, than telling the truth.

It is very difficult to tell the truth.

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.

I decided I am not going to say things I do not mean anymore.

All I want and all I even ask of people in Hollywood is look, just be honest with me. Please don't lie to me. Whatever the situation is, be honest with me.

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

I can't tell a lie - not even when I hear one.

I've tried to do away with lying in my life in the last few years, but it's hard.

Always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time.

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

Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.

People ask me about past projects I've worked on, and other things; I'm just really bad at lying. I have a bad poker face, so I just try to tell people how I'm feeling in the moment and really what I was trying to do.

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

You deliver a message every time you speak. Do you deliver the truth, or do you deliver lies? When the message you deliver comes from truth and love, you are happier.

The truth is always easier than a lie or an evasion - easier to deal with and easier to live with.