Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Quotes

Saying what you believe others want to hear is, of course, a form of lying.

The music industry is a world of smoke and mirrors: they tell you exactly what they think you want to hear. And they are bare-faced lying. I tend to stay away from that.

Deception, flattering, lying, deluding, talking behind the back, putting up a false front, living in borrowed splendor, wearing a mask, hiding behind convention, playing a role for others and for oneself -- in short, a continuous fluttering around the solitary flame of vanity -- is so much the rule and the law among men that there is almost nothing which is less comprehensible than how an honest and pure drive for truth could have arisen among them.

You take the lies out of him, and he'll shrink to the size of your hat; you take the malice out of him, and he'll disappear.

Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears

Is not cant the materia prima of the devil, from which all falsehoods, imbecilities, abominations, body themselves, from which no true thing can come? For cant is itself the properly a double-distilled lie, the second power of a lie.

A lot of times in politics you have people look you in the eye and tell you what's not on their mind.

What have I eaten? Lies and smiles.

I don't like it when someone can look you in the eye and lie to you, or pretend that they're more than you.

And, of all lies (be that one poet's boast) / The lie that flatters I abhor the most.

Irony is the recourse of the weak-minded wimp, I think. I hate bands that deliver their songs with knowing smiles on their faces, so that if those songs fall flat they can say 'Ah well, we never really meant it anyway.' It's so dishonest.

One of my weaknesses happens to be lying, and I could tell you that I'm never going to lie again in my life, but that would be a lie.

A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.

Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty.

Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.

There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.

To say 'we' and mean 'I' is one of the most recondite insults.

Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.

Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.

Always be sincere, even if you don't mean it.

Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion.

There's an old saying amongst players in football talking about your general manger and coaches, they speak with a forked tongue.