Abdullah of Saudi Arabia Quotes

A lie should be tried in a place where it will attract the attention of the world.

Truth is a pain which will not stop. And the truth of this world is to die. You must choose: either dying or lying. Personally, I have never been able to kill myself.

Lying to a committee is a very grave abuse, and there ought to be a clear punishment.

One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie.

There are a lot of people who lie and get away with it, and that's just a fact.

With lies you may go ahead in the world, but you can never go back.

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

If you take in a lie, you must take in all that belongs to it.

Lies require commitment.

Most people who have told a lie think they got away with it … when in fact, they didn’t

The weight of lies will bring you down, follow you to every town 'cause nothing happens here that doesn't happen there.

There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies.

Blame it on the lies that killed us. Blame it on the truth that ran us down.

You know I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appals me. There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies - which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world - what I want to forget.

Quiet through the grave go I; or else beneath the graves I lie

All roads end at the grave, which is the gate to nothingness.

Twenty five years in Washington has taught me never to tell a lie to a reporter.

Every one shall die for his own iniquity.

In Washington telling the truth is a gaff.

Surely we don’t want the President to lie, we don’t want our senators to lie, we don’t want our congressmen to lie. But sometimes they do.

Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; But when the truth entails tremendous ruin, To speak dishonorably is pardonable.

I chose to compromise my principles. I broke my promise to always tell the truth.

If a public figure tells a whopping lie once in his life, it'll haunt him into his grave. If he lies morning, noon and night, it will become almost impossible to remember any one particular lie.

I can tell very quickly when people are lying.

When I was a kid, I got in trouble for lying a lot, and I had a teacher say, 'Instead of lying, write it down, because if you write it down, it's not a lie anymore; it's fiction.'