Samuel Johnson Quotes

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

Put away from you a dissembling mouth.

There is none who does not lie hourly in the respect he pays to false appearance.

I don't lie," I lied.

Dissimulation, even the most innocent in its nature, is ever productive of embarrassment; whether the design is evil or not artifice is always dangerous and almost inevitably disgraceful.

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.

I never lie- except for the few times I do in fact lie, but it's never intentional, and i'm totally telling the truth right now" She raised her right hand "promise".

Reality is easy. It's deception that's the hard work.

You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a fruit fly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.

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

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.

O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!

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

I abhor hypocrisy.

Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.

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

The priest is the personification of falsehood.

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.

There's one way to find out if a man is honest - ask him. If he says, 'Yes,' you know he is a crook.

Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he'd lie just to keep his hand in.

If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

The truthful man is usually a liar.

When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.