Lyman Beecher Quotes

I'll tell you something that's completely true - you can, as a man, obtain everything you want with the truth. If you lie, first of all you've got to be a very good lying actor, which is tres difficile. And it's going to give you poison inside the body.

It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance.

Certainly today we are incredibly tolerant of untruth.

No lie can live forever.

It is not so easy to keep silent when the silence is a lie.

Live a lie, and you will live to regret it; that's what livin' is to me.

Titles are marks of honest men, and wise; The fool or knave that wears a title lies.

When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback.

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.

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: a fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.

Not only do I never lie, I never respond to lies, no matter how vicious, no matter how hurtful.

When a man lies, he murders some part of the world.

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

Truth never was indebted to a lie.

Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.

Don't lie if you don't have to.

It's okay to lie as long as you reach a higher truth doing it.

Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.

Bruce always had to tell a lie. He was always living that lie. Caitlyn doesn't have any secrets.

Lying can never save us from another lie.

I'm not a liar.

It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.

I wish to Christ I could make up a really great lie. Sometimes, after an interview, I say to myself, 'Man, you were so honest - can't you have some fun? Can't you do some really down and dirty lying?' But the puritan in me thinks that if I tell a lie, I'll be punished.