Benjamin E. Mays Quotes

A lie cannot live.

It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. A person who lies is thereby responding to the truth, and he is to that extent respectful of it.

A half truth is a whole lie.

A lie should be trampled on and extinguished wherever found.

Liar' is the best work I've done.

Lying is the rule, not the exception.

I lied all my life.

I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version.

Lying can never save us from another lie.

A lie never lives to be old.

Not all teammates tell the truth.

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.

Stop lying about my record.

… he knew the lie of silence to be as evil as the lie of speech.

I don't know what else to do other than tell people what I think to be untruths.

Everyone has lied for some reason or the other.

Plain lies are dangerous.

A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.

Men lie the most. Men lie all the time.

Falsehood is a perennial spring.

I can't say why people lie; they just do. Everyone has their own reasons for not telling the truth.

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.

The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.

The certainty with which Cameron informed MPs and Shadow ministers of the specifics of a Labour offer that never actually existed suggests a degree of flexibility with the truth.