Emily Maitlis Quotes

At no time did I intend to, or do I believe that I did put forward false information to the American people.

Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.

As anyone who's ever contracted it knows, lies are an infectious disease. They slip under the almond slivers of your fingernails and into your bloodstream.

There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth.

Everything I say is 95% truthful.

I do believe that is a template that I stick very strongly to to tell the truth in an increasing swelter of lies and misinformation and disinformation.

And I really have done everything that I said I did do. The rest is just a story that somebody else made up.

The fact that someone says something doesn't mean it's true. Doesn't mean they're lying, but it doesn't mean it's true.

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'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.

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.

The third time you say a thing it sounds like a lie.

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.

I do not make stories up, full stop.

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

Everything I say is true.

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

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

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

I'm not a liar.

I am afraid the Spanish American has not always a very strict regard for truth.

Most people don't care if you're telling them the truth or if you're telling them a lie, as long as they're entertained by it.

There is no point in asking a man a question until you have established whether he has any reason to lie to you.

Every fact in the universe will fit every other fact in the universe. A lie never did, never will fit anything but another lie made to fit it. Never, never!