Mark Twain Quotes

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

Everything I say is 95% truthful.

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

I do not make stories up, full stop.

Everything I say is true.

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

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

Scripts can be slick and structured, but do they always contain the truth?

I'm not a fake person.

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.

I don't give false claims any due.

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

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

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.

I would never lie to anyone about history.

You need to tell the truth to the audience, or they will throw a brick through the TV. They'll turn you off.

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.

I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.

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.

Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.

And if that isn't the truth, it would be a lie.

Truth never was indebted to 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.

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