“Too much honesty makes you sound insincere.”
“Too much truth confuses the facts. Too much honesty makes you sound insincere”
“All stories are true,” Skarpi said. “But this one really happened, if that’s what you mean.” He took another slow drink, then smiled again, his bright eyes dancing. “More or less. You have to be a bit of a liar to tell a story the right way. Too much truth confuses the facts. Too much honesty makes you sound insincere.”
“We're all guilty of saying insincere things at one point or another, if only just to make the moment not totally suck as much as it truly does.”
“Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable; be honest and frank anyway.”
“Sometimes my mouth is a little too big and a little too open and sounds too much like a sailor.”