Elaine Stritch Quotes

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.

Truth is love's mother, and we all know it is not wise to lie to anyone's mother.

Truth is always consistent with itself, and needs nothing to help it out. It is always near at hand, and sits upon our lips, and is ready to drop out before we are aware; whereas a lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack; and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.

It is my belief... that the truth is generally preferable to lies.

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.

Lying is too much trouble. You have to make sure to taste each word before letting it off your tongue. I hate that. It's hard enough making people understand without lying.

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.

For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.

Truth never was indebted to a lie.

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 don't like to tell lies.

I'm not a liar.

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

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.

I'm almost incapable of lying. I'd be a terrible spy.

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

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.

It's a weird thing about the truth: It protects you. What really makes you vulnerable is when you're lying because you're going to get caught. When you tell the truth, there's a strange relief that comes.

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

The truthful man is usually a liar.

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