Seanan McGuire Quotes

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.

Better a child should be ignorant of a thousand truths than have consecrated in its heart a single lie.

I'm a very firm believer that a liar is a cheat and a thief and a crook. I don't like liars. I never lie. I always told my own child, "If you murder somebody, tell me. I'll help you hide the body. But don't you lie to me.

Only the difference between truth and lies, courage and cowardice.

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

It is of great importance to set a resolution, not to be shaken, never to tell an untruth. There is no vice so mean, so pitiful, so contemptible; and he who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and a third time, till at length it becomes habitual.

If you are going to do something that you have to lie about, don't do it, it's very simple.

Faith makes blessed. Consequently it lies.

A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.

You shall not steal, nor deal falsely, nor lie to one another.

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

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

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

I chose to compromise my principles. I broke my promise to always tell the truth.

Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.

Speak the truth. People will forgive an honest mistake; they won't forgive you if you lie.

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

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

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

The truth is always easier than a lie or an evasion - easier to deal with and easier to live with.

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.

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

On the whole, I should say that the person who likes to lie should never, in any circumstances, be allowed to. Leave the lying to the people who hate it. You will not find them indulging often.

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.