J. K. Rowling Quotes

It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

I always say the truth is best even when we find it unpleasant. Any rat in a sewer can lie. It's how rats are. It's what makes them rats. But a human doesn't run and hide in dark places, because he's something more. Lying is the most personal act of cowardice there is.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Falsehood is never better than truth, theft better than honesty, treachery better than loyalty, cowardice better than courage.

Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.

The inability to lie is far from the love of truth.

A righteous man hates lying, But a wicked man is loathsome and comes to shame.

Why would anybody lie? The truth is always more colourful.

Better not be a hero than work oneself up into heroism by shouting lies.

All lies, white or black, disgrace a gentleman, although I grant there is a difference: to say the least of it, it is a dangerous habit, for white lies are but the gentleman ushers to black ones.

He who has once deviated from the truth, usually commits perjury with as little scruple as he would tell a lie.

It is my belief... that the truth is generally preferable to lies.

Unethical conduct is actually the conduct of destruction and fear; lies are told because one is afraid of the consequences should one tell the truth; thus, the liar is inevitably a coward, the coward is inevitably a liar.

For peace of mind, I will lie about any thing at any time.

People do peculiar things in life and they do for whatever reason but I think one of the greatest crimes in life is when you lie.

So, I think that's the centerpiece of morality: Don't lie. But to do that, you have to go a step further and find out what the truth is.

To say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God, and a coward towards men.

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.

I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid.

I've tried to do away with lying in my life in the last few years, but it's hard.

We are men of action, lies do not become us.

When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.

He who is dishonest with respect to speech, is dishonest in everything.