Brian Dennehy Quotes

I was living a complete lie. But unfortunately, guilt doesn't make you stop.

I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.

Hard work, years of sacrifice, and dedication are necessary to succeed in the real world. Snowden's most notable accomplishment was lying about his military service, his experience, and education to procure a job with the NSA in the first place.

To have lied is to have suffered.

A man is sorry to be honest for nothing.

For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame.

I never thought anyone would pity me because of my time in the Marine Corps.

I've told lots of lies in my life. I try not to lie, but I still do. It's very difficult to get to 37 and not be ashamed of something you've done. But I think your life is easier, ultimately, if you're honest.

I was forced to lie to my father by doctors and relatives. I made that choice and agreed with them, and I will never, ever get over it. If I hear a lie in my life with my children, with my wife, my work, my audiences, I want to annihilate myself, vaporize myself, and wipe myself off the face of the earth.

Liar' is the best work I've done.

I definitely have conned a lot of people in my day. I'm not proud of it; it sounds like I am, kind of, now that I'm saying it.

I misled people, including even my wife.

You never feel good when you lie. It doesn't matter how much you want something, if you lie to somebody you love, and they actually, sincerely believe you, you feel like a cockroach that needs some serious Raid action.

Forgive me for my disrespect, forgive me for my lies.

If I poured all the lies I had told into the Mississippi, the river would rise and flood the city.

What have you done? What have you given up?' So many things, Cecily. More than you know.

She was fabulously wrong when she said it the first time, and stunningly arrogant in her refusal to express any regret for lying to our fellow citizens.

I owe a lot of people an apology. I hurt a lot of people. Not just my wife. My friends, my colleagues, the public, kids who looked up to me. There were a lot of people that thought I was a different person and my actions were not according to that.

I don't enjoy eating humble pie.

Figures don't lie, but liars figure.

I did a lot of lying. I went through a big lying phase when I was in like third and fourth grade. I told all my friends I was in Les Misérables, and I was not. I also told them I was an Indian princess. Also not an Indian princess.

In my firm, we dealt in lies. Advertising is that ... the skilful use of the truth to mislead, to spoil, to debase.

When one feels no shame in telling a deliberate lie, there is no evil, I tell you, he will not do.

I apologize to the women I’ve hurt. I deeply regret what I did and know that it has forever impacted all of our lives.

He let out a hiss of pain,then smiled that crooked, sheepish smile he always fell back on when he was caught doing something bad. "Sorry. I-I didn't mean to. I just- I've been lying here for hours, thinking about blood.