Amy Bloom Quotes

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

If you spend a lot of time lying to people, you think a lot about what the truth means.

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

The truthful man is usually a liar.

Washington could not tell a lie; Nixon could not tell the truth; Reagan cannot tell the difference.

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

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

A man who lies, thinking it is the truth, is an honest man, and a man who tells the truth, believing it to be a lie, is a liar.

He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.

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

In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.

Lying is the strongest acknowledgement of the force of truth.

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.

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

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

I don't like to tell lies.

Don't tell lies, ever. No matter what - not even little white lies.

I can't tell a lie - not even when I hear one.

Avoid the company of a liar. And if you can't avoid him, don't believe him.

There is no truth in him, and men who cannot tell the truth are not to be trusted either in public or private life.

Certainly today we are incredibly tolerant of untruth.

He who does not need to lie is proud of not being a liar.

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

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.