Greg Egan Quotes

An honorable man or woman is one who is truthful; free from deceit; above cheating, lying, stealing, or any form of deception. An honorable man or woman is one who learns early that one cannot do wrong and feel right. A man's character is judged on how he keeps his word and his agreements.

For how can you compete Being honour bred, with one Who, were it proved he lies, Were neither shamed in his own Nor in his neighbour's eyes?

You have to start out learning to believe the little lies. "So we can believe the big ones?" Yes. Justice, mercy, duty. That sort of thing.

I never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.

If I have one wish which is greater than another, it is, if I had the power, to make men do right; to make them stop their swearing, their lying, their deceiving, to stop trying to injure the innocent, and begin to be honest and upright in all their dealings with one another and honor the name of the Deity.

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

So, I think that's the centerpiece of morality: Don't lie. But to do that, you have to go a step further and find out what the truth is.

I think you can never ever lie, ever. If you don't know, say, 'I don't know'.

You shall not steal, nor deal falsely, nor lie to one another.

It is a poor cause which has to be lied for regularly.

If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.

The truthful man is usually a liar.

There's hostility to lying, and there should be.

I could never lie to someone to benefit myself, so telemarketing was something I was terrible at!

I would never lie about another professional.

Better a child should be ignorant of a thousand truths than have consecrated in its heart a single lie.

There are people who think that honesty is always the best policy. This is a superstition. There are times when the appearance of it is worth six of it.

There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite.

Which is better, truth that is a lie or the lie that is truth?

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.

There are many who say more than the truth on some occasions, and balance the account with their consciences by saying less than the truth on others. But the fact is that they are in both instances as fraudulant as he would be that exacted more than his due from his debtors, and paid less than their due to his creditors.

I don't lie," I lied.

It is not right or manly to lie even about Satan.

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

It is better to die than to tell a lie