Subject: Beliefs » Honesty (Page 10)

Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.

Celebrities are invariably celebrity-mad, just as liars always believe liars.

(1925 – 2012) author, playwright, essayist & screenwriter

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

(1874 – 1965) British prime minister, politician, statesman & orator

… you're so crooked that if you swallowed a nail you'd shit a corkscrew.

(1898 – 1979) British military commander

Actions lie louder than words.

(1966 – ) American magazine editor

Tact: To lie about others as you would have them lie about you.

(1863 – 1935) British-born American writer, artist & illustrator

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; truth isn’t.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

You only lie to two people in your life: your girlfriend and the police.

(1937 – ) American actor

If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

An alibi is a reason with a bad reputation.

(1926 – ) newspaper columnist

It’s easier to fool people than to convince them they’ve been fooled.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist