Tom Holt Quotes

You want to be very careful about lying; otherwise you are nearly sure to get caught.

A lie is a very short wick in a very small lamp. The oil of reputation is very soon sucked up and gone. And just as soon as a man is known to lie, he is like a two-foot pump in a hundred-foot well. He cannot touch bottom at all.

If you are ever going to lie, you go to jail for the lie rather than the crime. So believe me, don't ever lie.

If you will lie about the little things, before long you’ll lie about bigger things.

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.

Never tell a lie when you can bullshit your way through it

I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse.

It is best, if possible, to deceive no one; for he that ... begins by deceiving others, will end ... by deceiving 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 you fail to tell the truth, you are kept bound to the past in ways that devastate your soul.

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

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

I'm a really rotten liar. Generally, if I've tried to pull off a lie, it hasn't worked out to my advantage.

One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie.

I don't tolerate liars. When somebody lies to me, that's really, like, just unbearable.

If you spend a lot of time lying to people, you think a lot about what the truth means.

There's hostility to lying, and there should be.

If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.

A lie faces God and shrinks from man.

There are people who think that honesty is always the best policy. This is a superstition. There are times when the appearance of it is worth six of it.

An honorable man or woman is one who is truthful; free from deceit; above cheating, lying, stealing, or any form of deception. An honorable man or woman is one who learns early that one cannot do wrong and feel right. A man's character is judged on how he keeps his word and his agreements.

There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite.

Personally I've never put much store by honesty- I mean how can you trust a word whose first letter you don't even pronounce

Do the devils lie? No; for then even hell could not subsist.