Lillian Gordy Carter Quotes

He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest.

The truthful man is usually a liar.

The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!

I don't lie," I lied.

Everyone seems to be running against a liar, but nobody seems to be one. Odd - I mean, the math doesn't work out.

Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so.

Like many people, I have a fascination with lies and the people who tell them. I wouldn't say I've never told a lie, but I don't think I've ever told one without both assuming I would be found out and feeling absolutely rotten about it.

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

If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.

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

Put away from you a dissembling mouth.

In Washington telling the truth is a gaff.

All I can say is anybody who's spent most of his life living a lie is not somebody I admire.

You become uneasy with people in direct proportion to how many lies you have to keep track of in their presence.

But here's the thing about being honest: All the liars HATE you for it, and most of the people in the world are liars. They lie to their bosses, they lie to their families, they lie to themselves, they lie so much they don't even know they're lying anymore. If you have the courage to be honest even a little bit all those people will hate you for it, because their lie is reflected in your honesty. Oscar Wilde wasn't kidding when he said, "If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you."

A lie faces God and shrinks from man.

Isn't it too bad that the great truths are all such lies.

On the whole, I should say that the person who likes to lie should never, in any circumstances, be allowed to. Leave the lying to the people who hate it. You will not find them indulging often.

Christians don't tell lies they just go to church and sing them.

You take the lies out of him, and he'll shrink to the size of your hat; you take the malice out of him, and he'll disappear.

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.

One man lies in his words, and gets a bad reputation; another in his manners, and enjoys a good one.

A very honest woman but something given to lie

There is so much falsehood both at home and at school. At home one must not speak, and at school we have to stand and tell lies to the children.

All lies, white or black, disgrace a gentleman, although I grant there is a difference: to say the least of it, it is a dangerous habit, for white lies are but the gentleman ushers to black ones.