# Quote — Kingsley Amis, Girl, 20

> The real trouble with liars […] was that there could never be any guarantee against their occasionally telling the truth.

- Author: [Kingsley Amis](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kingsley-amis.md)
- Book: [Girl, 20](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kingsley-amis/girl-20.md)
- Page: 92
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kingsley_Amis#Girl,_20_(1971)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/kingsley-amis/girl-20/the-real-trouble

## More from this book

> [I]t's human to choose any sort of path into the future rather than face the long road back to what you've left behind.

p. 157 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kingsley-amis/girl-20/i-ts-human-to-choose.md)

> He's taken to going off for hours at a time, wandering round those woods that lead off from the common apparently. Nothing there apart from trees and sexual maniacs.

p. 215 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kingsley-amis/girl-20/hes-taken-to-going.md)