Tad Williams Quotes

We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.

A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous.

Sometimes I don't tell the truth, which is telling the truth about not telling the truth. I think people don't tell the truth when they're afraid that something bad's going to happen if they tell the truth. I say things all the time that I could really get into trouble for, but they kind of blow over.

Truth-telling frightens me. Lying confuses me.

anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!

Fear and lies fester in darkness. The truth may wound, but it cuts clean.

I'll tell you something that's completely true - you can, as a man, obtain everything you want with the truth. If you lie, first of all you've got to be a very good lying actor, which is tres difficile. And it's going to give you poison inside the body.

When you fail to tell the truth, you are kept bound to the past in ways that devastate your soul.

Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

When a man lies, he murders some part of the world.

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

One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie.

Lying can never save us from another lie.

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

If you spend a lot of time lying to people, you think a lot about what the truth means.

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

Lying was a way of life. The solution to the problem is ultrasimple: tell the truth, no matter how painful.

Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; But when the truth entails tremendous ruin, To speak dishonorably is pardonable.

A lot of people are afraid to lie to me.

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

A lie faces God and shrinks from man.

No lie can live forever.

A little lie is like a little pregnancy – it doesn't take long before everyone knows.

People only tell lies when there is something they are terribly frightened of losing.