Stanislaw Jerzy Lec 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.

The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.

I never lie to my fans.

Kids know when you're pulling a fast one, storywise, and I think that even when they're being entertained, children want to hear the truth, just like adults do.

A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself.

You can't lie to your audience. You can't lie to your fans.

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.

You tell me the truth, and I am hooked for life, because the one thing that you can't find nowadays is the person who is going to be absolutely honest with you.

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

If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.

It's so much easier to be truthful. Maybe I'm just too lazy to lie.

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.

I'm not a liar; I'm a truth teller.

I don't have any reason to lie about anything.

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.

I'm okay if everything is honest and truthful and relatable. If it's fabricated and ill-motived, it's not good.

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

You cannot tell an audience a lie. They know it before you do; before it's out of your mouth, they know it's a lie.

There's a bit of truth in everything I do, you know.

Truth never was indebted to a lie.

I never lie. I believe everything I say, so it's not a lie.

If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.

I'm a really rotten liar. Generally, if I've tried to pull off a lie, it hasn't worked out to my advantage.

The most powerful element in advertising is the truth.