Larry King Quotes

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

Everyone tells tiny lies, what's important really is the size.

Why would anybody lie? The truth is always more colourful.

All lies, white or black, disgrace a gentleman, although I grant there is a difference: to say the least of it, it is a dangerous habit, for white lies are but the gentleman ushers to black ones.

I'll tell you something that's completely true - you can, as a man, obtain everything you want with the truth. If you lie, first of all you've got to be a very good lying actor, which is tres difficile. And it's going to give you poison inside the body.

I don't like being lied to, so I only lie about the stupid things. White lies, basically.

You shall not steal, nor deal falsely, nor lie to one another.

It is a poor cause which has to be lied for regularly.

Unfortunately, as much as I am gullible, I also hate lying. I tend to tell the truth a lot... lying just isn't worth it. But I think I'm guilty of telling people that I'm 5 minutes away when really I'm about 45 or an hour away.

Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.

It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

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.

One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie.

Nobody can honestly say that they never lie.

When I think it's good not to say the truth, I don't say anything. I don't like actors in general, they lie, they are liars, trust me.

Apparently, I am a bit of an exaggerator when I tell stories. But I don't call them lies; I say they are better, funnier truths.

We're a nation of liars. But I mean that in the kindest sense.

There's hostility to lying, and there should be.

Lying was a way of life. The solution to the problem is ultrasimple: tell the truth, no matter how painful.

It is perhaps being economical with the truth.

That's one of the main things I've learned: honesty is paramount. The biggest thing I try and instil in my daughter. My deepest regrets have been to do with times that I've been dishonest. There's nothing worse than getting caught out in a lie. It's excruciatingly embarrassing.

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.

Unfortunately, though both Mahatma Gandhi and Narendra Modi hail from Gujarat, Gandhi never lied, and Modi never speaks the truth.

You want to be very careful about lying; otherwise you are nearly sure to get caught.

A lie faces God and shrinks from man.