Anne Sexton Quotes

Liars are the cause of all the sins and crimes in the world.

Love make us a liar. . Jace Wayland/Herondale, City of Ashes

Lying is the greatest of all sins.

Too many people looked to me in the eye and did not tell me the truth.

Honesty is of God and dishonesty of the devil; the devil was a liar from the beginning.

I don't like being lied to.

I hate a liar. Maybe because I'm such a good one myself, heh? Anyway, to find someone has told an out and out lie puts him on the other side of the fence from me for all time.

Lying is a most disgraceful vice; it first despises God, and then fears men.

A friend once said, and I found to be true,That everyday people, they lie to God too,So what makes you think, that they won't lie to you.

The only form of lying that is absolutely beyond reproach is lying for its own sake.

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

Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.

We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.

If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

It is perhaps being economical with the truth.

… he knew the lie of silence to be as evil as the lie of speech.

I knew Ginny was lying about that tattoo.

No lie can live forever.

There's thieves among us Painting the walls All kinds of lies , and lies I never told it all

If we dealt only with the false and dishonest, we should at last forget how to speak truth.

One little lie or dishonest act leads to another until the perpetrator is caught in the web of deceit.

Lies require commitment.

I was a little shocked at the elaborateness of the lie.

I lie a lot - it's really useful.