John Tillotson Quotes

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

Oh, I can spot a phoney a mile away.

We don't believe a liar even when he tells the truth.

He that once deceives is ever suspected.

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.

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

When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback.

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

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.

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.

The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

Sincerity: if you can fake it, you've got it made.

The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth.

You can't lie to your audience. You can't lie to your fans.

People often think I'm a faker, but I'm usually honest, in a certain way - in such a way that often nobody believes me!

Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies; history has no place for them.

I want to live in my truth. Tell me you don't like me, and I know it. But when you don't tell me, and you work behind my back, it's a lie, and I don't know how to fight that.

I never lie to my fans.

A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.

Telling lies does not work in advertising.

It's a weird thing about the truth: It protects you. What really makes you vulnerable is when you're lying because you're going to get caught. When you tell the truth, there's a strange relief that comes.

The truthful man is usually a liar.

You tell me the truth, and I am hooked for life, because the one thing that you can't find nowadays is the person who is going to be absolutely honest with you.

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

In the Prime Minister, we have a man who has forfeited the right to be believed or to be trusted.