Samuel Butler Quotes

My only real advice to Oscar nominees is, 'If you haven't actually seen a competitor's film, don't fib and say you have and blow smoke up their wahooziewhatsits.' Always best to be frank and tell them the truth.

No lies, just love.

People always love and respect characters who speak the truth, even if the truth hurts.

The best way to impress a woman is to be the most honest you can.

I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.

My fans know me and love me the way I am. I don't want to lie to my fans.

I would seriously question whether anybody is really foolish enough to really say what they mean. Sometimes I think that civilization as we know it would kind of break down if we all were completely honest.

A gift of truth is the gift of love.

There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.

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

Don't be 'consistent', but be simply true.

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.

You just make yourself available to be full of love. And to be truthful and honest, 100 percent.

In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth.

I get a lot of people coming up to me and saying, 'I really hate you.' And they say it in the nicest possible way, and I accept it. It's the people who come up to you and say, 'I really liked your character. Man, he was right!' Those are the ones you worry about.

With love, you don't mislead or play around, so if you're not perfectly clear, just be honest about it.

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

Women love an honest man.

Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.

Once you lose the honesty in a relationship, I mean, I think you don't have a relationship at all.

I never lie to my fans.

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.

The truthful man is usually a liar.

Put away from you a dissembling mouth.