Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

If you will lie about the little things, before long you’ll lie about bigger things.

One man lies in his words, and gets a bad reputation; another in his manners, and enjoys a good one.

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

A man will pass better through the world with a thousand open errors upon his back than in being detected in one sly falsehood. When one is detected, a thousand are suspected.

Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth.

A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.

With lies you may go ahead in the world, but you can never go back.

You want to be very careful about lying; otherwise you are nearly sure to get caught.

A new study found that most people can't go 10 minutes without lying. But since the study took 20 minutes nobody knows what to believe.

All that one gains by falsehood is, not to be believed when he speaks the truth.

Everyone seems to be running against a liar, but nobody seems to be one. Odd - I mean, the math doesn't work out.

Go ahead and gamble a lie. A person who will not tell you seven lies within a hundred yards is useless as a man.

Aristotle was once asked what those who tell lies gain by it. Said he - That when they speak truth they are not believed.

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

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.

Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.

I don't tolerate liars. When somebody lies to me, that's really, like, just unbearable.

A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.

A lot of people are afraid to lie to me.

The liar wants to be believed, but lying undermines the foundation for credibility.

Do the devils lie? No; for then even hell could not subsist.

On the whole, I should say that the person who likes to lie should never, in any circumstances, be allowed to. Leave the lying to the people who hate it. You will not find them indulging often.

Listen honey, would I lie to you to get in your pants?

Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death. I can work out a good character much faster than anyone can lie me out of it