Henry David Thoreau Quotes

All that one gains by falsehood is, not to be believed when he speaks the truth.

To lie a little is not possible: he who lies, lies the whole lie.

The worst thing you can be is a liar. . . . Okay, fine, yes, the worst thing you can be is a Nazi, but then number two is liar. Nazi one, liar two.

LIAR, n. One who tells an unpleasant truth.

The only form of lying that is absolutely beyond reproach is lying for its own sake.

I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.

It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance.

I'm a really bad liar.

Put away from you a dissembling mouth.

I doubt he knows himself when he’s not telling the truth.

Have you weaned yourself of your off-putting proclivity for not telling the truth/

I'm not a particularly good liar.

No lie can live forever.

I don't lie," I lied.

Lies require commitment.

I've never seen anybody that lied as much as Ted Cruz. And he goes around saying he's a Christian.

I hate a liar. Maybe because I'm such a good one myself, heh? Anyway, to find someone has told an out and out lie puts him on the other side of the fence from me for all time.

I lie as truthfully as I can.

Not many people are true, fake as the lies they tell

Men are liars. We lie about lying if we have to.

Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.

Truth is as straight as an arrow, while a lie swivels like a snake.

You know what lies are for.

The insincerity of man-all men are liars, partial or hiders of facts, half tellers of truths, shirks, moral sneaks. When a merely honest man appears he is a comet-his fame is eternal-needs no genius, no talent-mere honesty

But maybe half a lie is worse than a real lie.