Mark Twain Quotes

I don't like people lying; I like honesty.

You never monkey with the truth.

It's real easy to manufacture what you think the people want to hear. But that's not very honest.

Put away from you a dissembling mouth.

There's freedom in being rigorously honest. I lied all my life.

The truth is a precious commodity. That's why I use it so sparingly.

I am what I am and I'm a horrible liar. I can't do it. I'm just very candid.

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.

We are not hypocrites in our sleep.

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

I am not honest.

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.

All I want and all I even ask of people in Hollywood is look, just be honest with me. Please don't lie to me. Whatever the situation is, be honest with me.

Just because you're upfront with someone doesn't mean you're an honest person; you might just be someone in the passenger seat.

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

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

I would rather be uncomfortable with the truth than to be lied to in comfort. That's just my nature.

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.

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

I'm the worst liar - I can't lie for my life. And I don't lie at all, because I'm the worst liar - but as a kid, I thought I was a great liar, so I would lie all the time, but everybody knew I was lying.

It's so much easier to be truthful. Maybe I'm just too lazy to lie.

In love, I've been a deceiver. But I realized being honest is so much easier than lying and being deceitful.

I'm not a particularly good liar.

I'm not a good liar. I just tell the truth; I think that's the best way.

I'm not going to lie to people.