Richard Pryor Quotes

As hypocrisy is said to be the highest compliment to virtue, the art of lying is the strongest acknowledgment of the force of truth.

I'm not big on lying. I don't like that at all.

The truthful man is usually a liar.

I am sincere, ma petite, even when I lie.

I lie as truthfully as I can.

You know I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appals me. There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies - which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world - what I want to forget.

Lying is the strongest acknowledgement of the force of truth.

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

The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.

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

I am not honest.

Don't lie if you don't have to.

The only thing that I have is the truth, so the only thing I fear is a lie.

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

It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance.

Put away from you a dissembling mouth.

Certainly today we are incredibly tolerant of untruth.

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

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

Lying and art are very allied. But after you lie, you get to the truth.

I'm not a particularly good liar.

I cannot stand dishonesty among people, the tendency to prevaricate.

There is no such thing as a good writer and a bad liar.

The lie is so vile, that even if it were in speaking well of godly things, it would take off something from God's grace; and Truth is so excellent, that if it praises but small things they become noble.

No lie can live forever.