Perception of Honesty Quotes

The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.

The nicer I am, the more people think I'm lying.

One great error is that we suppose mankind more honest than they are.

Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man.

Women in my focus groups, they say a bald man is trustworthy. He has nothing to hide.

It is with honesty in one particular as with wealth,--those that have the thing care less about the credit of it than those who have it not. No poor man can well afford to be thought so, and the less of honesty a finished rogue possesses the less he can afford to be supposed to want it.

People for the most part can smell lies, at least I thought that until I saw audiences applaud at Carlos Mencia.

Whenever we tell the truth, nobody believes us. We lie, and people take it as etched-in-stone fact.

Please explain to me why John Kerry sounds more dickish telling the truth than Bush sounds when he's lying. How is that possible?