One lie will destroy a whole reputation for integrity.
~ Baltasar Gracian, in The Art of Worldly Wisdom
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
~ Samuel Butler
Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fastly misled us as those that are not wholly wrong, as no timepieces so effectually deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
It’s discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
~ Noel Coward
I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don’t trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.
~ Charles Dickens
The louder he talked of his honor the faster we counted our spoons.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him; you have no business with consequences you are to tell the truth.
~ Samuel Johnson
White lies are but the ushers to black ones.
~ Frederick Marryat
An honest man is the noblest work of God.
~ Alexander Pope
Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch. Nay, you may kick it about all day, and it will be round and full at evening.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
~ Winston Churchill
O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!
~ Walter Scott
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
~ William Shakespeare
Oh, what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practice to deceive!
~ William Shakespeare
The liar’s punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
~ George Bernard Shaw
A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
~ Mark Twain
If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.
~ Mark Twain
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