Martin Landau Quotes

I can't say why people lie; they just do. Everyone has their own reasons for not telling the truth.

In Indian politics, deception seems a byword. I'll have none of that.

When I make a mistake everyone can see it, but not when I lie.

I don't like people who hide things.

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

If everyone in the music business were brutally honest about what their intentions were then you could sort things out, but it's all smoke and mirrors.

There's good and bad everywhere in any aspect in life. The only people who we can't really trust are politicians. Because those guys lie to everybody and constantly.

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.

A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.

A fault is fostered by concealment.

When a man tells me he's going to put all his cards on the table, I always look up his sleeve.

Surely we don’t want the President to lie, we don’t want our senators to lie, we don’t want our congressmen to lie. But sometimes they do.

Honesty I can take. Lies I get upset about.

There's a difference between lying and not being straight.

No matter how small the dishonest deed is, at the end of the day, cheating is cheating.

Everyone cheats.

Sincerity doesn't mean anything. A person can be sincere and be more destructive than a person who is insincere.

We're all liars when it serves our purpose.

There were people who lied for gain, people who lied from pain, people who lied simply because the concept of telling the truth was utterly alien to them . . . and then there were people who lied because they were waiting for it to be time to tell the truth.

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.

By lying, we deny others a view of the world as it is. Our dishonesty not only influences the choices they make, it often determines the choices they can make—and in ways we cannot always predict. Every lie is a direct assault upon the autonomy of those we lie to.

So often the truth is told with hate, and lies are told with love.

Your truths are worse than your lies.

I want to live in my truth. Tell me you don't like me, and I know it. But when you don't tell me, and you work behind my back, it's a lie, and I don't know how to fight that.

Usually we are saying only part of the truth.