Bill Kristol Quotes

A falsehood in which some truth is not stated at the beginning, cannot be maintained in the end.

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.

People seldom tell the truths that are worth telling. We ought to choose our truths as carefully as we choose our lies and to select our virtues with as much thought as we bestow upon the selection of our enemies.

Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.

I never lie," I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love.

You can know something is a lie when it has no love in it.

The one thing I hate about other managers is waffle that is nowhere near the truth. I would never conduct myself like that.

I never lie- except for the few times I do in fact lie, but it's never intentional, and i'm totally telling the truth right now" She raised her right hand "promise".

I'm not always sincere. One can't be in this world, you know.

I hate deception, even where the imagination only is concerned.

Is not anyone with any degree of mental honesty conscious of telling lies all day long, both in talking and writing, simply because lies will fall into artistic shape when truth will not?

I would love to say how nice it is to see you again, but that would be a lie. And I am nothing if not honest.

Truth is as straight as an arrow, while a lie swivels like a snake.

Truth-telling frightens me. Lying confuses me.

I'd lie for you and that's the truth.

As hypocrisy is said to be the highest compliment to virtue, the art of lying is the strongest acknowledgment of the force of truth.

The only form of lying that is absolutely beyond reproach is lying for its own sake.

There is nothing in the world more difficult than candor, and nothing easier than flattery. If there is a hundredth of a fraction of a false note to candor, it immediately produces dissonance, and as a result, exposure. But in flattery, even if everything is false down to the last note, it is still pleasant, and people will listen not without pleasure; with coarse pleasure, perhaps, but pleasure nevertheless.

You’re a terrible liar, Sage, but I’m still touched you’d attempt it for my sake. A for effort.

So often the truth is told with hate, and lies are told with love.

All that one gains by falsehood is, not to be believed when he speaks the truth.

Can you honestly love a dishonest thing?

TRUTHFUL, adj. Dumb and illiterate.

Where thou art Obliged to speak, be sure speak the Truth: For Equivocation is half way to Lying, as Lying, the whole way to Hell.