Jonathan Swift Quotes

Tell the truth and shame the devil.

Honesty - however dangerous - should be as valuable as radium it seems to me.

There is an innocence in lying which is the sign of good faith in a cause.

George, she says it's the truth that matters. We live and die for the chance to maybe tell a little bit of the truth, maybe shame the Devil just a little bit before we go.

Lying is the strongest acknowledgement of the force of truth.

Never tell a lie-except for practice.

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

I don't think lying has any ultimate justification. I don't think it ever leads to anything positive. The good fight to have is not to lie. That's one of the challenges in a way.

Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.

Don't lie if you don't have to.

I don't like to tell lies.

I just have an inability to lie.

I can't tell a lie - not even when I hear one.

The foundation of morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying.

He who does not need to lie is proud of not being a liar.

Truth is a habit of integrity, not a strategy of politics.

When in doubt, tell the truth. It will confound your enemies and astound your friends.

I don't cheat.

I'm not a good liar. I just tell the truth; I think that's the best way.

There is no such thing as a good writer and a bad liar.

Tell troth and shame the devil.

A hero must be honorable, must have honor. And you can't have honor if you're a liar. There is no honor in lying.

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

We may argue eloquently that 'Honesty is the best Policy' - unfortunately, the moment honesty is adopted for the sake of policy it mysteriously ceases to be honesty.