Katharine Hepburn Quotes

Someone who lies about the little things will lie about the big things too.

When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback.

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

I can't say why people lie; they just do. Everyone has their own reasons for not telling the truth.

I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.

There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.

A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.

It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. A person who lies is thereby responding to the truth, and he is to that extent respectful of it.

Not all teammates tell the truth.

I'm a really bad liar.

With lies you may go ahead in the world, but you can never go back.

… he knew the lie of silence to be as evil as the lie of speech.

A falsehood in which some truth is not stated at the beginning, cannot be maintained in the end.

A lie should be trampled on and extinguished wherever found.

I'm the worst liar - I can't lie for my life. And I don't lie at all, because I'm the worst liar - but as a kid, I thought I was a great liar, so I would lie all the time, but everybody knew I was lying.

Lying is the rule, not the exception.

A lot of people are afraid to lie to me.

When you find that people are not telling you the truth---look out!

If you're not gonna tell the truth, then why start talking?

One man lies in his words, and gets a bad reputation; another in his manners, and enjoys a good one.

There is so much falsehood both at home and at school. At home one must not speak, and at school we have to stand and tell lies to the children.

It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.

Lying about things large and small has become so accepted by so many that they even lie about lying.

A lie cannot live.

The truth just happens - lies take time to make.