Subject: Beliefs » Honesty (Page 2)

Celebrities are invariably celebrity-mad, just as liars always believe liars.

(1925 – 2012) author, playwright, essayist & screenwriter

Grandmama Addams: Fester, You're not cheating!

Uncle Fester: Sorry.

(1914 – 1984) American actor

When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.

(1902 – 1991) Polish Jewish American author

History is a pack of lies we play on the dead.

(1694 – 1778) French author, humanist & satirist

It is always the best policy to speak the truth…` unless, of course you are an exceptionally good liar.

(1859 – 1927) English writer

He is a shifty-eyed goddamn liar…. he's one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.

(1884 – 1972) 33rd U.S. president

If beauty is truth, why don’t women go to the library to have their hair done?

(1805 – 1864) English editor, novelist & sporting writer

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.

(1835 – 1902) English composer, author & satirist

Never tell the truth to those unworthy of it.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

To the French, lying is simply talking.

(1950 – ) writer & humorist

In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat.

(1930 – ) American author and billiard player, teacher & commentator

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

(1835 – 1902) English composer, author & satirist

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

(1802 – 1870) American writer & editor

There are three kinds of lies; lies, damned lies and statistics.

(1804 – 1881) British prime minister, politician & author

Truth hurts… maybe not as much as jumping on a bicycle with the seat missing… but it hurts.

(1926 – 2010) Canadian actor

I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true.

(1893 – 1967) writer, humorist & poet

He’s crooked as a barrel full of fish hooks.

What do you call an honest Iranian businessman? … Asif.

(1965 – ) British-Iranian comedian, actor & writer

There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.

(1930 – ) economist, social commentator & author

One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

A man who will not lie to a woman has very little consideration for her feelings.

(1918 - 2002) American author