Joe Manganiello Quotes

There never was a liar that had not a spot in him where he could not help admiring truth.

A person I knew used to divide human beings into three categories: those who prefer to have nothing to hide rather than being obliged to lie, those who prefer lying to having nothing to hide, and finally those who like both lying and the hidden.

I think you can be an honest person and lie about any number of things.

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

He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest.

It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

Be honest with yourself and lie to everyone else.

[Ross Perot] thinks that proclaiming honesty is the same as being honest.

I'm a lot of things but not a liar or a phony, even when I know it's in my best interest to be.

Observe this, that tho a woman swear, forswear, lie, dissemble, back-bite, be proud, vain, malicious, anything, if she secures the main chance, she's still virtuous; that's a maxim.

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.

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.

A hero must be honorable, must have honor. And you can't have honor if you're a liar. There is no honor in lying.

Now you say you have to absolutely truthful. Sincerity is the main thing, and truthfulness is the main thing and don't lie to anybody ... and you'll get ahead. Brother you sure will. You'll get ahead right on that cycle of action, right toward zero! It's a trap not being able to prevaricate ... This makes life more colorful!

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

An injurious truth has no merit over an injurious lie. Neither should ever be uttered. The man who speaks an injurious truth, lest his soul be not saved if he do otherwise, should reflect that that sort of a soul is not strictly worth saving.

So from then on, he looked at all his choices and said, What would a good person do, and then did it. But he has now learned something very important about human nature. If you spend your whole life pretending to be good, then you are indistinguishable from a good person. Relentless hypocrisy eventually becomes the truth.

One man lies in his words, and gets a bad reputation; another in his manners, and enjoys a good one.

He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.

Your friend is intellectually honourable," Jimmy's mother would say. "He doesn't lie to himself.

All lies, white or black, disgrace a gentleman, although I grant there is a difference: to say the least of it, it is a dangerous habit, for white lies are but the gentleman ushers to black ones.

Leaders must not be naive. I used to say, "Liars shouldn't lie." What a sad waste of words that is! I found out liars are supposed to lie. That's why we call them liars - they lie! What else would you expect them to do?

It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.

Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie - I found that out.

If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false statement I could never stay there five minutes. But why come out? The streetis as false as the church, and when I get to my house, or to my manners, or to my speech, I have not got away from the lie.