It is always the best policy to speak the truth—unless, of course… — Jerome K. Jerome · Skopia

← Back to quotes

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

Jerome K. Jerome

1892

★ 5.2

Other tags relating to this quote

Topic

Telling the truth Lying

Time

Person

Jerome K. Jerome

Provenance

Citation

Jerome, Jerome K. "The Idler's Club." The Idler. London: Chatto & Windus, Feb. 1892.

Related quotes

Other quotes that share a subject, a time, or a voice with this one.

Speak the truth and shame the Devil.

Francois Rabelais

Gargantua and Pantagruel · 1564

Another quote aboutTopic·Telling the truth

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

Intentions · 1891

Another quote aboutTopic·Telling the truth

O, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive!

Sir Walter Scott

1808

Another quote aboutTopic·Lying

Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.

Diogenes Laertius, The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers · 240

Another quote aboutTopic·Lying

"Nothing-so it seems to me," said the stranger, "is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life... The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of—of things longer."

Jerome K. Jerome

1908

Another quote byPerson·Jerome K. Jerome