William Faulkner Quotes

A liar is not believed even though he tell the truth.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

I cannot stand dishonesty among people, the tendency to prevaricate.

Confidence: The feeling that makes one believe a man, even when one knows that one would lie in his place

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

I don't lie," I lied.

We find it easy to believe that praise is sincere: why should anyone lie in telling us the truth?

What would you think if I told you that I wasn’t an Allomancer?” Sazed asked. “I’d think that you were lying,” Vin said. “Have you known me to lie before?” “The best liars are those who tell the truth most of the time.

Maggie, we're through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.

Truth is sacred; and if you tell the truth too often nobody will believe it.

I'm planning, you see, to try to confine myself to the truth. That's hard for an old, inveterate fantasy martyr and liar who has never hesitated to give truth the form he felt the occasion demanded.

Even a liar tells a hundred truths to one lie; he has to, to make the lie good for anything.

A liar must have a good memory. -Mendacem oportet esse memorem

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.

I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.

I am not honest.

Don't lie if you don't have to.

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