Michel de Montaigne Quotes

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

It is not without good reason, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.

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

A liar should have a good memory.

I'll tell you something that's completely true - you can, as a man, obtain everything you want with the truth. If you lie, first of all you've got to be a very good lying actor, which is tres difficile. And it's going to give you poison inside the body.

Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth.

When a man lies, he murders some part of the world.

A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.

It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory.

A good memory is needed after one has lied.

There's hostility to lying, and there should be.

With lies you may go ahead in the world, but you can never go back.

Liars ought to have good memories.

I think lying is a bad idea. Sooner or later, someone's going to catch you.

It only takes one lie to taint your entire testimony.

He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake the trade of lying.

A lie is a very short wick in a very small lamp. The oil of reputation is very soon sucked up and gone. And just as soon as a man is known to lie, he is like a two-foot pump in a hundred-foot well. He cannot touch bottom at all.

If you will lie about the little things, before long you’ll lie about bigger things.

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

The trouble with a liar is he can't remember what he said.

The gain of lying is nothing else but not to be trusted of any, nor to be believed when we say the truth.

TRUTH may hurt temporarily, but LIES leave marks permanently.

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

There always comes a point beyond which lying becomes counterproductive. This point is reached when the audience to which the lies are addressed is forced to disregard altogether the distinguishing line between truth and falsehood in order to be able to survive.