Keith Henson Quotes

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

Education, like neurosis, begins at home.

I think children learn through their parents.

The child who defines a lie as being a "naughty word" knows perfectly well that lying consists in not speaking the truth. He is not, therefore, mistaking one thing for another, he is simply identifying them one with another by what seems to us a quaint extension of the word "lie".

So many things come from people's parents lying to them about the truth about things. I feel like, once those ideas die with people, we'll be good in a couple of generations.

The fundamental human truth underpinning 'Ox Mountain Death Song' is that men so very often turn into their fathers. The way that everything gets passed down.

Lot of things depend on the up bringing of a child.

I don't like being lied to, so I only lie about the stupid things. White lies, basically.

I write about kids growing up, I write a lot about schools and parents, and all of my experiences with those things have been suburban experiences.

Jimmy says he'll never tell a lie. Well, I lie all the time. I have to - to balance the family ticket.

I read a lot, very passionately, from the time I was very young, but it was a constant battle; my mother would more or less let me be, but with my father, I was always searching for a place where he wouldn't find me. Whenever he saw me reading, he would tell me to put the book down and go outside, act like a normal person.

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.

White lies always introduce others of a darker complexion.

Nobody can honestly say that they never lie.

I believed in raising my children as I had been raised.

When I think it's good not to say the truth, I don't say anything. I don't like actors in general, they lie, they are liars, trust me.

We're a nation of liars. But I mean that in the kindest sense.

Good lies need a leavening of truth to make them palatable.

Why would anyone lie? The truth is always more colorful.

People for the most part can smell lies.

The average person tells a few white lies.

Lying was a way of life. The solution to the problem is ultrasimple: tell the truth, no matter how painful.

Give me a child for the first 7 years, and you may do what you like with him afterwards.

It is perhaps being economical with the truth.

People who are deceptive themselves have a really good ear for deception. They know when somebody's telling the truth or not, and so one of the ways around that is to always be telling the truth - or some version of it.