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The truthful man is usually a liar.

Lies can be wonderful things, and when a lie is told artfully, if it's done with a degree of craftsmanship, I can't help but admire the liar.

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

I regard myself as a man without charm in a country of charmers.

It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory.

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

Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life.

I think what I have is straightforwardness, unabashedness rather than charm.

An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.

Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.