Hannah Arendt Quotes

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.

Is it possible to tell the truth in a society of lies? Or must you always, of necessity, become a liar?

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.

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

A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.

When both parties are lying and they both know the other party's lying, it comes powerful close to being the same thing as telling the truth.

A new study found that most people can't go 10 minutes without lying. But since the study took 20 minutes nobody knows what to believe.

If you tell a lie, always rehearse it. If it don't sound good to you, it won't sound good to anybody.

Aristotle was once asked what those who tell lies gain by it. Said he - That when they speak truth they are not believed.

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

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

The truthful man is usually a liar.

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

With lies you may go ahead in the world, but you can never go back.

I'm the worst liar - I can't lie for my life. And I don't lie at all, because I'm the worst liar - but as a kid, I thought I was a great liar, so I would lie all the time, but everybody knew I was lying.

A lot of people are afraid to lie to me.

There is no such thing as a good writer and a bad liar.

The liar wants to be believed, but lying undermines the foundation for credibility.

The best liars are those who tell the truth most of the time.

It only takes one lie to taint your entire testimony.

I don't lie," I lied.

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

You can fool people some of the time, but you can't fool them all of the time.

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.

When treating with liars, even an honest man must lie.