Franz Grillparzer Quotes

I was living a complete lie. But unfortunately, guilt doesn't make you stop.

One of the great strengths of the Republicans is that they have no guilt and no shame. They’ll say anything.

Sin is the reason we are racist, prejudiced, and lie to cover for our own.

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

Lying contains the same hostile elements as a practical joke in that the 'victim' ends up looking foolish in his own eyes and laughable in everyone else's.

Fools lie, clever men stick to the truth.

The eleventh commandment, "Thou shalt not be found out" is despicable, but nevertheless, it is the one thing you can never get away from.

Denying the undeniable just makes you sound like a fool as well as a liar.

Some kneel and lie to God.

Few things in life are more embarrassing than the necessity of having to inform an old friend that you have just got engaged to his fiancee.

It is easy for men to talk one thing and think another.

Lying is a terrible vice, it testifies that one despises God, but fears men.

I do not like an injurious lie, except when it injures somebody else.

Everyone seems to be running against a liar, but nobody seems to be one. Odd - I mean, the math doesn't work out.

You know, that might be the answer - to act boastfully about something we ought to be ashamed of. That's a trick that never seems to fail.

A liar goes in fine clothes, a liar goes in rags, a liar is a liar, clothes or no clothes.

I don't like it when someone can look you in the eye and lie to you, or pretend that they're more than you.

How embarrassing it is to be human.

[Donald Trump] is a true republican: he is hypocritical and two-faced, he's a liar, a cheat, and a thief and the more he speaks, the more his real character shows.

I just walked out of the room. I was like, I'm embarrassed, so I need to leave.

And when all was said and done the lies a fellow told about himself couldn't probably hold a proverbial candle to the wholesale whoppers other fellows coined about him.

Observance of customs and laws can very easily be a cloak for a lie so subtle that our fellow human beings are unable to detect it.

There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious.

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

With other people, Hilly hands out lies like the Presbyterians hand out guilt, but it's our own silent agreement, this strict honesty, perhaps the one thing that has kept us friends