
“No one believes a liar. Even when she's telling the truth.”
Source: Heartless
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers
“No one believes a liar. Even when she's telling the truth.”
Source: Heartless
“2084. He that does not speak Truth to me, does not believe me when I speak Truth.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
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“A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.”
Mark Twain and I by Opie Read
"Lettre du Provincial" (21 December 1899)
Basic Verities, Prose and Poetry (1943)
“We know how to tell many believable lies,
But also, when we want to, how to speak the plain truth.”
Theogony, lines 28–29
Translations, Works and Days and Theogony (1993)
Aristotle, 9.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 5: The Peripatetics
“You who speak languages, you are such liars.”
“Celebrities are invariably celebrity-mad, just as liars always believe liars.”
Source: 1990s, Palimpsest : A Memoir (1995), Ch. 18: To Do Well What Should Not Be Done at All, p. 311