Eric Jerome Dickey Quotes

In this age, lies were the universal lubricant of the culture. A love of Truth and commitment to it were seldom rewarded and were often punished.

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.

A new study found that most people can't go 10 minutes without lying. But since the study took 20 minutes nobody knows what to believe.

A man should be jailed for telling lies to the young.

A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.

If a person lies to you about what's in their bank account, they'll lie to you about other things as well.

I'm a really bad liar.

I don't like being lied to.

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

I'm not a particularly good liar.

There never was a liar that had not a spot in him where he could not help admiring truth.

The moment you make someone promise anything is the same moment you ask them to lie to you.

There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite.

Do the devils lie? No; for then even hell could not subsist.

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.

Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.

Dishonesty is a forsaking of permanent for temporary advantages.

When you find that people are not telling you the truth---look out!

Lies require commitment.

He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake the trade of lying.

I'll take thy word for faith, not ask thine oath; Who shuns not to break one will sure crack both.

No one believes a liar. Even when she's telling the truth.

Widespread cultural acceptance of lying is a primary reason many of us will never know love

Enough white lies can scorch the earth black.

By lying, we deny others a view of the world as it is. Our dishonesty not only influences the choices they make, it often determines the choices they can make—and in ways we cannot always predict. Every lie is a direct assault upon the autonomy of those we lie to.