Charles Olson Quotes

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

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

We've all grown wary of being lied to online - let's face it, dudes are always exaggerating their heights - so trust is a hot commodity.

He said that he was sure you would be amendable to this course of action." April paused, eyes widening, before she said indignantly, "I believe he may have lied to me!

You never monkey with 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.

And if that isn't the truth, it would be a lie.

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

I have a hard time keeping a story straight when I tell the truth because when you start lying you have to remember what you said, and I'm not very good at that.

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

I'm a really rotten liar. Generally, if I've tried to pull off a lie, it hasn't worked out to my advantage.

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

There is no point in asking a man a question until you have established whether he has any reason to lie to you.

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

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

Scales always lie. They don't make a scale that ever told the truth about value, about worth, about significance.

The truthful man is usually a liar.

The truth is overrated.

Stop lying about my record.

Certainly today we are incredibly tolerant of untruth.

Truth: An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance …

… he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false, is guilty of falsehood; and the accidental truth of the assertion, does not justify or excuse him.

People are starved for the truth, and when something comes along that even looks like the truth, people will latch onto it because everything's so false.

I don't lie very well!

A lot of people are afraid to lie to me.