Orson Scott Card Quotes

The truthful man is usually a liar.

As anyone who's ever contracted it knows, lies are an infectious disease. They slip under the almond slivers of your fingernails and into your bloodstream.

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.

Aristotle was once asked what those who tell lies gain by it. Said he - That when they speak truth they are not believed.

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

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.

Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.

I don't debate with liars.

Anybody who says they are a good liar obviously is not, because any legitimately savvy liar would always insist they're honest about everything.

A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.

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

Not all teammates tell the truth.

If what is communicated is false, it can hardly be called communication.

I'm a really bad liar.

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

Anybody can make something up and have it sound believable. The hard part is remembering all the lies you've told, and all the people you've told them to, and then living the lies that have become your life.

I've become very conscious of how easy it is for people to lie.

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.

I don't use the word 'lying' easily.

A lot of people are afraid to lie to me.

You become uneasy with people in direct proportion to how many lies you have to keep track of in their presence.

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

The best liars are those who tell the truth most of the time.

It only takes one lie to taint your entire testimony.

I don't lie," I lied.