Jean de La Fontaine Quotes

We cannot see but a small depth into the heart of man, and can only discover the work of his tongue.

People will always show their true selves in the end.

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

One thing he always said, and I love this quote and I really believe it, my ex said, 'You don't truly know a person until they don't get what they want. That's when they show you who they are.' You wouldn't think that the person you were married to and were with for 10 years and taught you the quote would be the best number one example to prove it.

To a liar, the most dangerous individual is the person who catches lies but doesn't say anything about it. Then the liar isn't sure which lies are compromised.

I learned not to trust people; I learned not to believe what they say but to watch what they do; I learned to suspect that anyone and everyone is capable of 'living a lie'. I came to believe that other people - even when you think you know them well - are ultimately unknowable.

I knew Ginny was lying about that tattoo.

What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?

You can tell the man who rings true from the man who rings false, not by his deeds alone, but also by his desires.

Treachery, though at first very cautious, in the end betrays itself.

A person's true nature will reveal itself despite disguise.

All my life I have lied. I lied to escape, I lied to be loved, I lied for placement and power; I lied to lie. It was a way of living; lies are life's almost-anagram.

Image and appearance tell you little. The inside is bigger than the outside when you have the eyes to see.

Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.

Deception is one of the quickest ways to gain little things and lose big things.

Most people love you for who you pretend to be.

The eleventh commandment, "Thou shalt not be found out" is despicable, but nevertheless, it is the one thing you can never get away from.

Oh, my dear Miss Everdeen. I thought we had an agreement not to lie to each other.

I think that, like anything, people take their image and what they want somebody else to be and then people just run with it. And when you really know the person and really love the person, you recognize that that person is nothing like that.

Our own distrust gives a fair pretence for the knavery of other people.

There was a time in my life when being dishonest with women was the natural way to be. I finally said, "Hey, I have to stop this silliness."

Your truths are worse than your lies.

Dishonesty makes me feel vulnerable.

Let us remember that a traitor may betray himself and do good that he does not intend. It can be so, sometimes.

A man who believes the word of a donkey in preference to my word does not deserve to be lent anything.