Austin O'Malley Quotes

Truth is often attended with danger

Lies are a tremendous karmic setback. Keep it up and you'll come back in the next life as something without a spine. You're not fine. And you don't have to be fine.

He who speaks the truth must keep one foot in the stirrup.

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous.

We talk about honesty, but the reality is we have lots of human values, and they are not all compatible. We don't always tell the truth about everything, no matter what the consequences.

Nothing is more perilous than truth in a world that lies.

… whoever brushes aside even a part of the truth, whether through intention or oversight, is doomed to fall. The truth he lacks thrives on negligence, and brings down whatever is built without it.

He who speaks the truth must keep one foot in the stirrup.

You want to be very careful about lying; otherwise you are nearly sure to get caught.

If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.

I'd rather deal with the consequences of the truth rather than the benefits of a lie.

I'm a very firm believer that a liar is a cheat and a thief and a crook. I don't like liars. I never lie. I always told my own child, "If you murder somebody, tell me. I'll help you hide the body. But don't you lie to me.

It's a big mistake to try and mislead people. They will turn around.

Be careful what you do, because the lie becomes the truth.

Speak nothing but the truth, and you'll soon be considered dangerous.

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.

When you have a problem, if you tell the truth, the problem becomes part of your past. If you lie, it becomes part of your future.

Enough white lies can scorch the earth black.

A lie is a very short wick in a very small lamp. The oil of reputation is very soon sucked up and gone. And just as soon as a man is known to lie, he is like a two-foot pump in a hundred-foot well. He cannot touch bottom at all.

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

Tell someone you are going to rob them and all that will happen is that you'll get a reputation as a truthful man.

If you are ever going to lie, you go to jail for the lie rather than the crime. So believe me, don't ever lie.

If you will lie about the little things, before long you’ll lie about bigger things.