James Gibbons Quotes

It is worse for a liar to tell the truth than for a lover of truth to lie.... There is a truth which is of Satan. Its essence is that under the semblance of truth it denies everything that is real. It lives upon hatred of the real world which is created and loved by God.

La ve rite existe; on n'invente que le mensonge. Truth exists; only lies are invented.

Man can certainly keep on lying (and does so), but he cannot make truth falsehood.

Put away from you a dissembling mouth.

I doubt he knows himself when he’s not telling the truth.

Liars sometimes tell the truth; they don’t tell lies all the time.

Have you weaned yourself of your off-putting proclivity for not telling the truth/

… he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false, is guilty of falsehood; and the accidental truth of the assertion, does not justify or excuse him.

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

Someone who lies and someone who tells the truth are playing on opposite sides, so to speak, in the same game. Each responds to the facts as he understands them, although the response of the one is guided by the authority of the truth, while the response of the other defies that authority and refuses to meet its demands. The bullshitter ignores these demands altogether. He does not reject the authority of the truth, as the liar does, and oppose himself to it. He pays no attention to it at all. By virtue of this, bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are.

A big lie is more plausible than truth.

I lie as truthfully as I can.

Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented.

Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse.

Sometimes truth is costly but not nearly as costly as deception.

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

A lie cannot live.

Every edit is a lie.

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.

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

For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that - is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

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

Truth never was indebted to a lie.