Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould Quotes

When a man lies, he murders some part of the world.

White lies always introduce others of a darker complexion.

Nobody can honestly say that they never lie.

There's hostility to lying, and there should be.

A lie should be trampled on and extinguished wherever found.

There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite.

In the end a lie is a lie.

You shall not steal, nor deal falsely, nor lie to one another.

Lying can never save us from another lie.

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.

I'm not big on lying. I don't like that at all.

It is perhaps being economical with the truth.

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

Living on hypocrisy is not a healthy diet for patriots.

When treating with liars, even an honest man must lie.

I lie as truthfully as I can.

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.

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

Never lie under any circumstances.

There is no such thing as white lies; a lie is as black as a coalpit, and twice as foul.

Is it possible to tell the truth in a society of lies? Or must you always, of necessity, become a liar?

People seldom tell the truths that are worth telling. We ought to choose our truths as carefully as we choose our lies and to select our virtues with as much thought as we bestow upon the selection of our enemies.

Nothing makes a man so virtuous as belief of the truth. A lying doctrine will soon beget a lying practice. A man cannot have an erroneous belief without by-and-by having an erroneous life. I believe the one thing naturally begets the other.

People do peculiar things in life and they do for whatever reason but I think one of the greatest crimes in life is when you lie.

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