Abraham Lincoln Quotes

If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.

If I had two faces, do you think I would be wearing this one.

It might be said that the pose of absolute honesty is the most dishonest one of all.

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.

The truthful man is usually a liar.

Put away from you a dissembling mouth.

I can't act. I can't lie.

I strive for honesty because I think that's where the funniest stuff comes from.

You become uneasy with people in direct proportion to how many lies you have to keep track of in their presence.

If you want to say something and have people listen then you have to wear a mask. If you want to be honest then you have to live a lie.

A false mind is false in everything, just as a cross eye always looks askant. But one may err once, nay, a hundred times, without being double-minded. There can never be mental duplicity where there is sincerity.

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

Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.

Always be sincere, whether you mean it or not.

A rogue does not laugh in the same way that an honest man does; a hypocrite does not shed the tears of a man of good faith. All falsehood is a mask; and however well made the mask may be, with a little attention we may always succeed in distinguishing it from the true face.

The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.

The truth just happens - lies take time to make.

You cannot play naive if you're not.

I don't want to lie. I dislike dishonesty. And I work in Hollywood, a town and a business that relies on a lot of falsehoods with people hiding behind different facades. I don't want to be a part of that.

Everyone is born sincere and die deceivers.

We are not hypocrites in our sleep.

I've had. It's the real me. People don't deserve anything less.

There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.

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