Jean de La Fontaine Quotes

Put away from you a dissembling mouth.

The truthful man is usually a liar.

It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.

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

The truth just happens - lies take time to make.

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

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

I'm a really bad liar.

Have you weaned yourself of your off-putting proclivity for not telling the truth/

It might be said that the pose of absolute honesty is the most dishonest one of all.

All I can say is anybody who's spent most of his life living a lie is not somebody I admire.

You become uneasy with people in direct proportion to how many lies you have to keep track of in their presence.

For this is the most civil sort of lie That can be given to a man's face. I now Say what I think.

I don't lie," I lied.

Only a lie that wasn't ashamed of itself could possibly succeed.

You take the lies out of him, and he'll shrink to the size of your hat; you take the malice out of him, and he'll disappear.

I hate deception, even where the imagination only is concerned.

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

A lie cannot live.

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

No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.

You never monkey with the truth.

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.