Charles Peguy Quotes

There is a price to pay for speaking the truth. There is a bigger price for living a lie.

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

Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.

The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.

An untruth must be spoken, where need requires. For whether men lie, or say true, it is with one and the same object. Men lie, because they think to gain by deceiving others; and speak the truth, because they expect to get something by their true speaking, and to be trusted afterwards in more important matters. Thus, though their conduct is so opposite, the end of both is alike. If there were no gain to be got, your true-speaking man would tell untruths as much as your liar, and your liar would tell the truth as much as your true-speaking man.

I think if you don't say something it's lying by omission. I personally think it's immoral.

I'd rather suffer the consequences of truth than of silence.

Once in a while, when I was younger, I'd lie, then tell the truth, and I'd feel better.

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

One tells as few lies as possible only by telling as few lies as possible, and not by having the least possible opportunity to do so.

Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies; history has no place for them.

We talk about honesty, but the reality is we have lots of human values, and they are not all compatible. We don't always tell the truth about everything, no matter what the consequences.

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

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

Liars sometimes tell the truth; they don’t tell lies all the time.

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

Falsehood and delusion are allowed in no case whatsoever. But, as in the exercise of all the virtues, there is an economy of truth.

I’d love to say that politicians who lie should be indicted, but lying except under oath is not a crime—it’s a moral crime however.

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

A lie should be trampled on and extinguished wherever found.

… whoever brushes aside even a part of the truth, whether through intention or oversight, is doomed to fall. The truth he lacks thrives on negligence, and brings down whatever is built without it.

I cannot flinch from saying such things in public. As a Representative of the People I am duty bound to do so. Justice cries out to me not to dissemble.

Don't lie about anything, ever. Lying leads to Hell.

If I utter one lie, I'll have to remember it the next time someone asks me about it. It's far simpler to state the truth.

There is no such thing as a good writer and a bad liar.