Pietro Aretino Quotes

It is better to disappoint people with the truth than to appease them with a lie.

I never really tell lies, and sometimes it has worked against me.

I try not to lie to people - the only way to control the way you're perceived is to tell the truth.

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.

Always tell the truth. That way you don't have to remember what you said.

Men should be what they seem.

If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, 'Tell the truth.' If I got three more words, I'd add, 'All the time.'

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.

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.

It is such a relief to be told the truth.

Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine.

Tell the truth because then you don't have to have a good memory.

I don't like to tell lies.

For me, the greatest fault would be to tell somebody something I'm not.

All I want and all I even ask of people in Hollywood is look, just be honest with me. Please don't lie to me. Whatever the situation is, be honest with me.

I pefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart.

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

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

Being truthful is a necessity because when I'm not being truthful it takes a toll on me. I don't have any room for it in my life. I don't have an across-the-board opinion on honesty in relationships. But for me, personally, it's paramount.

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.

I've tried to do away with lying in my life in the last few years, but it's hard.

Since when is anyone truly honest with anyone?

I never lie to my fans.

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.