Enid Bagnold Quotes

There's just no substitute for 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.

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.

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.

I'm not a liar.

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.

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

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

The truthful man is usually a liar.

I don't do much lying in real life because I don't get away with it.

Don't you ever ask me for a true statement again!

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

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

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

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.

I don't lie very well!

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

If I utter one lie, I'll have to remember it the next time someone asks me about it. It's far simpler to state the truth.

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

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

Naked Truth needs no shift.

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

You never monkey with the truth.