Jermaine Fowler Quotes

When we tell little white lies, we become progressively color-blind. It is better to remain silent than to mislead.

There are times when lying is the most sacred of duties.

Alanna didn't approve of lying, but in a pinch a lie was sometimes better than the truth.

There always comes a point beyond which lying becomes counterproductive. This point is reached when the audience to which the lies are addressed is forced to disregard altogether the distinguishing line between truth and falsehood in order to be able to survive.

Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar.

I don't think lying has any ultimate justification. I don't think it ever leads to anything positive. The good fight to have is not to lie. That's one of the challenges in a way.

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

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.

It's okay to lie as long as you reach a higher truth doing it.

Don't tell lies, ever. No matter what - not even little white lies.

It's easy to be taken advantage of if you're not honest.

It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.

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

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

The foundation of morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying.

When I became press secretary my father sent me a telegram and said, "Tell the truth if you can and if you can't tell the truth, don't tell a lie." That became very difficult to do.

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

The first thing a man will do for his ideals is lie.

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

When treating with liars, even an honest man must lie.

You can always cheat an honest man, but it takes more work.

The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue; a half-truth is always the ally of some vice.

If I told you, you might be forced to lie about it. Not that you aren't really good at it, but why put an old man in that position?

Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls. The least admixture of a lie-for example, the taint of vanity, the least attempt to make a good impression, a favorable appearance-will instantly vitiate the effect.

Major Major had lied, and it was good. He was not really surprised that it was good, for he had observed that people who did lie were, on the whole, more resourceful and ambitious and successful than people who did not lie.