Tyler Hamilton Quotes

The truth is far from you, so you know you got to lie. Then you're all the time defending what you can never justify.

The more people rationalize cheating, the more it becomes a culture of dishonesty. And that can become a vicious, downward cycle. Because suddenly, if everyone else is cheating, you feel a need to cheat, too.

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

When you're a liar, a person of low moral fortitude, really any explanation you need to be true can be true. Especially if you're smart enough. You can figure out a way to justify anything.

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

Ronald Reagan is not a typical politician because he doesn't know how to lie, cheat, and steal. He's always had an agent for that.

I think lying is a bad idea. Sooner or later, someone's going to catch you.

An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.

If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false statement I could never stay there five minutes. But why come out? The streetis as false as the church, and when I get to my house, or to my manners, or to my speech, I have not got away from the lie.

Man is bound to lie about himself

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.

When we tell little white lies, we become progressively color-blind. It is better to remain silent than to mislead.

I stand by all the misstatements that I've made.

An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.

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

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

People who lie, particularly those who lie really big, can't do it effectively unless they feel that there's a righteous power behind what they're doing. You're entitled to lie because the end justifies the means.

You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.

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

A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.

When a politician bends the truth or a CEO breaks a promise, trust takes a beating.

Bad excuses are worse than none.

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