Franklin P. Adams Quotes

Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

Trust and belief are two prime considerations. You must not allow yourself to be opinionated.

A liar should have a good memory.

You can read everybody. It's not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it's false.

I don't tolerate liars. When somebody lies to me, that's really, like, just unbearable.

Liars are always most disposed to swear.

Stay away from non-Muslims. They are all liars.

Avoid the company of a liar. And if you can't avoid him, don't believe him.

There is no truth in him, and men who cannot tell the truth are not to be trusted either in public or private life.

I warn my readers against my biases.

Liars ought to have good memories.

When you look a certain way, or you have a certain presence, people take someone else's word over yours.

The liar wants to be believed, but lying undermines the foundation for credibility.

You're such a big liar you gotta get your neighbor to call your dog.

Remain true to yourself and your philosophy. Changing in the face of adversity will in fact diminish your credibility with your customers.

The strange machinery by which a reputation precedes its source we all know is faulty. Yet how much faith we put in it!

There is something so beautiful in trust that even the most hardened liar need feel a certain respect for those who confide in him.

For the record, I don't expect you to believe any of this. Not really. I'm a liar by trade, after all; albeit, I like to think, an honest liar.

What would you think if I told you that I wasn’t an Allomancer?” Sazed asked. “I’d think that you were lying,” Vin said. “Have you known me to lie before?” “The best liars are those who tell the truth most of the time.

One of the great conditions of anger and hatred is, that you must tell and believe lies against the hated object, in order, as we said, to be consistent.

A liar is not believed even though he tell the truth.

Even a liar tells a hundred truths to one lie; he has to, to make the lie good for anything.

A liar must have a good memory. -Mendacem oportet esse memorem

A good liar must have a good memory.