A Quote by Quintilian

A liar should have a good memory.

Quintilian

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Quintilian
Roman - Educator
35 - 95

A good liar must have a good memory. Kissinger is a stupendous liar with a remarkable memory.

Christopher Hitchens

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

Quintilian

A liar ought to have a good memory.

Quintilian

A liar did ought to have a good memory.

Flora Thompson

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

Abraham Lincoln

A liar must have a good memory. -Mendacem oportet esse memorem

Quintilian

A good liar must have a good memory.

Christopher Hitchens

To be a liar, you've got to have a great memory, and I don't have a memory.

Ozzy Osbourne

I remember being a teenager and saying, 'Oh, I want to be an actress when I grow up.' And people saying, 'You need to be a good liar - are you a good liar?'

Phoebe Waller-Bridge

Whenever anyone does as this ad does, plays the actual words of Donald Trump on national television, his response is to yell, "Liar." Their strategy is simply to yell, "Liar, liar, liar."

Ted Cruz

Anybody who says they are a good liar obviously is not, because any legitimately savvy liar would always insist they're honest about everything.

Chuck Klosterman

I once called the head of a network a liar. In hindsight, I should have called him an incompetent liar.

Steven Levitan

I have a good memory. But I would be interested in memory even if I had a bad memory, because I believe that memory is our soul. If we lose our memory completely, we are without a soul.

Umberto Eco

As for my memory, I have a particularly good one. I never keep any record of my investigations or experiments. My memory files all these things away conveniently and reliably. I should say, though, that I didn’t cumber it up with a lot of useless matter.

Charles Proteus Steinmetz

Unethical conduct is actually the conduct of destruction and fear; lies are told because one is afraid of the consequences should one tell the truth; thus, the liar is inevitably a coward, the coward is inevitably a liar.