Lie And Honesty Quotes

#1. Nothing poisons love more than honesty. If love lasts until the day we die, we will live without showing our real self to our beloved until the day we die. Love makes us more beautiful and distorts us. Love takes our impulse to lie to an extreme.

Yang Gui-ja

#2. You lie once.. you lie for the rest of your life ... and in quest of proving your innocence.. you pledge your honesty with utter lies ... !!!

Abhijeet Sawant

#3. There isn't a lot of honesty when it comes to discussing Obamacare. Too many Republicans lie about the implications of the health-insurance program and dismiss out of hand the reasons a massive overhaul of the long-time system is necessary.

Kurt Eichenwald

#4. Telling one lie almost always requires another, and before the storyteller knows it, they will be caught inside of their own web.

Jenna Alatari

#5. You can lie in any language on earth, and body language is no exception.

Nenia Campbell

#6. But may the truth be told. May the true self may be found. May the truth rule the world more than ever. How easy life will be if everyone is just true to themselves, true to their words, true to their actions and true to life?

Diana Rose Morcilla

#7. Small truths have greater power than big lies.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#8. In God's eyes, a man who teaches one truth and nothing else is more righteous than a man who teaches a million truths and one lie.

Criss Jami

#9. It takes two seconds to tell the truth and it costs nothing. A lie takes time and it costs everything.

Randi Rhodes

#10. To find out if she really loved me, I hooked her up to a lie detector. And just as I suspected, my machine was broken.

Dark Jar Tin Zoo

#11. We have to be honest about what we want and take risks rather than lie to ourselves and make excuses to stay in our comfort zone.

Roy Bennett

#12. Somewhere between the honest truth and the deceptive lie is the deceptive truth and the honest lie.

Robert Breault

#13. Dissembling was so large a part of middle-class life that honesty and frankness seemed the most devious stratagem of all. The most outright lie was the closest one came to truth.

J.G. Ballard

#14. You can lie to yourself about all kinds of things. Until you can't, anymore. Until reality pounds a hole through your fantasy castle and the reality check must be cashed in.

Ann Aguirre

#15. Honesty means exactly what it says. We are honest and trustworthy in all our dealings. People can trust our word, because we refuse to lie or shade the truth.

Billy Graham

#16. The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.

Plutarch

#17. Emancipated' women found out that the honesty, generosity, and camaraderie of men was a lie.

Shulamith Firestone

#18. Literature is the product of a deep-seated need for honesty. Hence, those who lie most are struck most deeply by it, and those who are honest have no need for it.

Anthony Marais

#19. My honesty now is merely a long-term investment in my own plausibility. Because there may come a day when I really need to lie, and then it might be handy if you think I'm honest.

Jo Nesbo

#20. Leaders fight hard wars against
injustice and unfairness. They
believe that the truth is a weapon;
when triggered, the lie dies.

Israelmore Ayivor

#21. I didn't come up with the lie. It wasn't mine. They handed the lie to me, and I tried like hell to make it work for a while.

Kenneth Logan

#22. I am an honest man by nature, but as I live in society I try not to arouse anyone's resentment and sometimes I am compelled to lie in this endeavour. As soon as honesty becomes compatible with daily social life, I will stop telling such lies.

Soseki Natsume

#23. I think you can be an honest person and lie about any number of things.

Dan Rather

#24. We are solitary creatures that come together in packs so we can survive as a species. We'll do anything to preserve the social status quo, including omit, deny, and lie. Complete honesty would be detrimental to the survival of the race.

Chelsey Philpot

#25. Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie, but rather mourn the apathetic, throng the coward and the meek who see the world's great anguish and its wrong, and dare not speak.

Ralph Chaplin

#26. Oh for someone with a heart, head and hand. Whatever they call them, what do I care, aristocrat, democrat, autocrat, just be it one that can rule and dare not lie.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#27. Honesty is, honestly, the best policy," said Saracen. "But when honesty doesn't work, lie, and lie convincingly.

Derek Landy

#28. A make believe life doesn't win friends and influence people. It bores the crap out of those living the dream.

Melody Carstairs

#29. She said she married an architect, who kept her warm and safe and dry. She would like to say she loved the man, but she didn't like to lie.

Dan Fogelberg

#30. And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.

William Faulkner