Once You Tell A Lie Quotes

#1. Once you tell a lie, the truth is your enemy; and every truth connected to that truth, and every ally of truth in general; all of these you must oppose, to protect the lie. Whether you're lying to others, or to yourself.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#2. Once you tell a lie, you have to keep tellin' and tellin' and tellin' to make it stand.

Cassie Dandridge Selleck

#3. He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.

Thomas Jefferson

#4. I get a letter once a week from my mama. She say everything fine at home..
I write her back too, when I can, but what I'm gonna tell her that won't start her bawling again? So I just say we is having a nice time and everybody treating us fine.

Winston Groom

#5. The first trick to lying is to tell the truth as often as possible. If out start lying about everything, big and small, it becomes impossible to keep things straight and you'll get caught. Once suspicion is planted it becomes exponentially harder to sell the next lie.

Victoria Schwab

#6. Once the doors close there can be no lie or deception and the lights will tell all!

Walel Watson

#7. Once in a while, when I was younger, I'd lie, then tell the truth, and I'd feel better.

Tyler Hamilton

#8. He who has once deviated from the truth, usually commits perjury with as little scruple as he would tell a lie.
[Lat., Qui semel a veritate deflexit, hic non majore religione ad perjurium quam ad mendacium perduci consuevit.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#9. Telling the whole truth and nothing but is the ultimate taking care of yourself. I can't tell you how many clients of mine, once they clean up their lie list and resolve the big ones, cure themselves of their own depression.

Lauren Handel Zander

#10. If you once tell a lie, the truth is ever after your enemy.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#11. Don't hate me. Tell me ... everything' s okay. I was always so ashamed. I was ashamed of my weakness. But ... I want you to say it. Just once ... even if it's a lie. I know it will give me the courage ... to try and become strong.

Natsuki Takaya

#12. It is of great importance to set a resolution, not to be shaken, never to tell an untruth. There is no vice so mean, so pitiful, so contemptible; and he who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and a third time, till at length it becomes habitual.

Thomas Jefferson

#13. Once you marry me, none of it is a lie," he pointed out. "It will be exactly as though you've told the truth all these years."
"Except for the part where we love each other."
He shrugged. "That's a minor detail. Love is just a lie people tell themselves.

Tessa Dare

#14. We of Es Toch tell a little myth, which says that in the beginning the Creator told a great lie. For there was nothing at all, but the Creator spoke, saying, It exists. And behold, in order that the lie of God might be God's truth, the universe at once began to exist.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#15. The devil has a thousand names," said Crews, voice rising, "but the name he takes the most pride in is Prince of Lies, because he is such a convincing fraud. Even God himself was fooled by Satan once, so what hope do we have to tell what's truth and what's false?

Robert Ferrigno

#16. Tell me if you ever cared,
if a single thought
for me was spared.
Tell me when you lie in bed,
do you think of something
I once said.
Tell me if you hurt at all,
when someone says
my name with yours.
It may have been so long ago,
but I would give
the world to know.

Lang Leav

#17. Once you tell your first lie, the first time you lie for him, you are in it with him, and then you are lost.

Anita Shreve

#18. Maybe the problem with lying is that once you start faking it, it's impossible to tell where the make-believe you ends and the real you begins. It's hard to be who you are, but it's even harder to keep up the lie.

Autumn Doughton