Mark Twain Quotes

Someone who lies and someone who tells the truth are playing on opposite sides, so to speak, in the same game. Each responds to the facts as he understands them, although the response of the one is guided by the authority of the truth, while the response of the other defies that authority and refuses to meet its demands. The bullshitter ignores these demands altogether. He does not reject the authority of the truth, as the liar does, and oppose himself to it. He pays no attention to it at all. By virtue of this, bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are.

He who has once deviated from the truth, usually commits perjury with as little scruple as he would tell a lie.

People do peculiar things in life and they do for whatever reason but I think one of the greatest crimes in life is when you lie.

I think you can be an honest person and lie about any number of things.

Lying is the strongest acknowledgement of the force of truth.

Never tell a lie-except for practice.

The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.

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

Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.

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

I'm not big on lying. I don't like that at all.

Put away from you a dissembling mouth.

I doubt he knows himself when he’s not telling the truth.

Liars sometimes tell the truth; they don’t tell lies all the time.

Have you weaned yourself of your off-putting proclivity for not telling the truth/

To lie a little is not possible: he who lies, lies the whole lie.

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

There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite.

On the whole, I should say that the person who likes to lie should never, in any circumstances, be allowed to. Leave the lying to the people who hate it. You will not find them indulging often.

I don't lie," I lied.

I lie as truthfully as I can.

Only the difference between truth and lies, courage and cowardice.

It is an occupational hazard that anyone who has spent her life learning how to lie eventually becomes bad at 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.