Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.

All I want and all I even ask of people in Hollywood is look, just be honest with me. Please don't lie to me. Whatever the situation is, be honest with me.

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

I never lie to my fans.

The truthful man is usually a liar.

[Ross Perot] thinks that proclaiming honesty is the same as being honest.

You become uneasy with people in direct proportion to how many lies you have to keep track of in their presence.

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

The aversion to lying is often a hidden ambition to render our words credible and weighty, and to attach a religious aspect to our conversation.

Through language, we can tell the truth and hear the truth spoken, just as we can be deceived. Sometimes it's a painful realization: we can be lied to. As I write, I think of myself as putting my eye under oath, so that what I write is the truth about my characters.

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

I've always operated under the notion that audiences don't always know when they're being lied to, but that they always know when they're being told the truth.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself.

We all respect sincerity in our friends and acquaintances, but Hollywood is willing to pay for it.

I don't debate with liars.

Kids have what I call a built-in hypocrisy antenna that comes up and blocks out what you're saying when you're being a hypocrite.

I'm a really rotten liar. Generally, if I've tried to pull off a lie, it hasn't worked out to my advantage.

I'm not a liar.

I might lie a lot but never in my lyrics.

You can't lie to your audience. You can't lie to your fans.

Because no matter what you say in life, the truth will always be the truth. You know when someone is telling the truth, you look in the eyes. I have a tendency to believe people.

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

Telling lies does not work in advertising.