Ogden Livingston Mills Quotes

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

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

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.

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

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

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

I'm not a liar.

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

Because no matter what you say in life, the truth will always be the truth. You know when someone is telling the truth, you look in the eyes. I have a tendency to believe people.

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

I don't do much lying in real life because I don't get away with it.

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

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

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.

Study after study shows that people are much less likely to lie to a person they consider to be honest.

I'm not a liar; I'm a truth teller.

I don't have any reason to lie about anything.

There's a simple thing we always say: if you always tell the truth, you will never have to remember what you said.

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.

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.

I won't tolerate lying.

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

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

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.