Mark Twain Quotes

Put away from you a dissembling mouth.

I don't lie," I lied.

Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.

I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.

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.

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

Some people will lie to you because they mean to. Others will do it to tell you what you want to hear.

The truthful man is usually a liar.

It might be said that the pose of absolute honesty is the most dishonest one of all.

All I can say is anybody who's spent most of his life living a lie is not somebody I admire.

Malicious lying is usually a matter of need, but often the cruelest things we say are the truth.

I just don't have a tolerance for people being fake, I don't think. Maybe especially when I think they have bad intentions.

I am sincere, ma petite, even when I lie.

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

For this is the most civil sort of lie That can be given to a man's face. I now Say what I think.

On the whole, I should say that the person who likes to lie should never, in any circumstances, be allowed to. Leave the lying to the people who hate it. You will not find them indulging often.

She'd tried her hand at most things, but drew the line at honesty.

Only a lie that wasn't ashamed of itself could possibly succeed.

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

If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false statement I could never stay there five minutes. But why come out? The streetis as false as the church, and when I get to my house, or to my manners, or to my speech, I have not got away from the lie.

You can know something is a lie when it has no love in it.

As hypocrisy is said to be the highest compliment to virtue, the art of lying is the strongest acknowledgment of the force of truth.

The insincerity of man-all men are liars, partial or hiders of facts, half tellers of truths, shirks, moral sneaks. When a merely honest man appears he is a comet-his fame is eternal-needs no genius, no talent-mere honesty

I tried to be diplomatic, but mostly I just lied a lot.

I'll tell you something that's completely true - you can, as a man, obtain everything you want with the truth. If you lie, first of all you've got to be a very good lying actor, which is tres difficile. And it's going to give you poison inside the body.