Jerome K. Jerome Quotes

Some people are under the impression that all that is required to make a good fisherman is the ability to tell lies easily and without blushing; but this is a mistake.

I'm more of an exaggerator than a liar.

Anybody who claims to read the entire paper every day is either the world's fastest reader or the world's biggest liar.

The main difference between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives.

I have a hard time keeping a story straight when I tell the truth because when you start lying you have to remember what you said, and I'm not very good at that.

Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.

I don't think I'm an intentional liar, but I'm a little bit of an exaggerator sometimes. If I'm exaggerating, and the journalist exaggerates on top of that, then we end up in funny territory.

Stop lying about my record.

People who are deceptive themselves have a really good ear for deception. They know when somebody's telling the truth or not, and so one of the ways around that is to always be telling the truth - or some version of it.

I can tell very quickly when people are lying.

I don't use the word 'lying' easily.

As someone who specializes in deception, I'll tell you this much: When someone insistently implores, 'Believe me,' don't. Pleading 'believe me' or 'trust me' - insisting to people that you are telling the truth - is a tell-tale sign that you probably aren't.

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.

A lot of rappers lie about who and what they are.

Oh.' I shot upright. 'I was in Mongolia.' Note to self: learn to be a less extreme liar.

You can create many lies from Truth, but you cannot create any truths from lies.

It is not without good reason, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.

He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.

There wasn't any more truth in over half of what any so-called orator said. If it wasn't a Deliberate Lie, why it was an Exaggerated Falsehood.

A liar must have a good memory. -Mendacem oportet esse memorem

Every Gag I tell must be based on truth. No matter how much I may exaggerate it, it must have a certain amount of Truth.... Now Rumor travels Faster, but it don't stay put as long as Truth.

But if there was embellishment, it only had to do with the facts.

Liars need to have good memories.

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

There's a tendency for designers to embellish the size of their business. I never lie.