Mark Twain Quotes

The third time you say a thing it sounds like a lie.

Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth.

Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.

You cannot tell an audience a lie. They know it before you do; before it's out of your mouth, they know it's a lie.

I always say show me a storyteller who doesn't embellish, and I'll show you a bad one.

'Harat' is actually - it's a Lebanese dialect word. It comes from 'the mapmaker,' somebody who makes a map. And it basically means somebody who tells fibs or exaggerate tales a little bit.

A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.

Apparently, I am a bit of an exaggerator when I tell stories. But I don't call them lies; I say they are better, funnier truths.

I'm more of an exaggerator than a liar.

The people who knew me and knew my work and trusted me, they knew then as they do now that I've never fabricated or plagiarized a story. People who know me know I didn't do this.

The thing that I've learned, not just from writing comics but also from writing television programs like 'Law & Order,' is that you can fool some of the people some of the time - but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.

A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.

Credibility is not a renewable resource in Washington.

Nobody could pile on the applesauce like Mickey. He was the best liar in the world - well, Frank Sinatra can tell a good story, too, but I don't believe he was ever unfaithful to me.

People say I make up wild stories. But all I have to do is write down stuff that really happens.

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.

I talk about things that happened in my life. Now, do I embellish? Absolutely. Come on, we all do it. It makes for a better story. But it always comes from a germ of truth.

Oh.' I shot upright. 'I was in Mongolia.' Note to self: learn to be a less extreme liar.

It is hard to say which is the greatest fool: he who tells the whole truth, or he who tells no truth at all. Character is as necessary in business as in trade. No man can deceive often in either.

You cannot fool an audience.

Do not be deceived by a man's eloquence; rather whoever fulfils trusts and refrains from impugning people's honour is a real man.

Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death. I can work out a good character much faster than anyone can lie me out of it

I've never made up events, but I've always been a big exaggerator. It's written on my humorist license that I'm allowed to do that.

He that once deceives is ever suspected.

A lie is a very short wick in a very small lamp. The oil of reputation is very soon sucked up and gone. And just as soon as a man is known to lie, he is like a two-foot pump in a hundred-foot well. He cannot touch bottom at all.