Benjamin Franklin Quotes

In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.

When faced with the choice to Love or Decieve, therein lies the path to the Heroes and Thieves.

There's no honor in faking an injury. There is no integrity, because you are lying about it.

A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.

To lie a little is not possible: he who lies, lies the whole lie.

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

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

As far as Ted Cruz, he's one of the greatest liars and biggest liars I've ever known.

A little lie is like a little pregnancy – it doesn't take long before everyone knows.

Your commander would never lie to you. That's the vice president's job.

A man who lies, thinking it is the truth, is an honest man, and a man who tells the truth, believing it to be a lie, is a liar.

When treating with liars, even an honest man must lie.

There are 869 different forms of lying, but only one of them has been squarely forbidden. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.

Lies require commitment.

Have you ever asked yourself why one person is honorable and another dishonorable; why one is honest, another dishonest; why one is moral, another immoral? Most individuals do not intend to be dishonest, dishonorable, or immoral. They seem to allow their characters to erode by a series of rationalizations, lies, and compromises. Then when grave temptation presents itself, they haven't the strength of character to do what they know to be right.

So I wasn't lying, exactly. I was just choosing among truths.

Is it not true that the clever rogue is like the runner who runs well for the first half of the course, but flags before reaching the goal: he is quick off the mark, but ends in disgrace and slinks away crestfallen and uncrowned. The crown is the prize of the really good runner who perseveres to the end.

Truth alone triumphs, not untruth. Through truth alone lies the way to Devayana (the way to the gods). Those who think that a little sugar - coating of untruth helps the spread of truth are mistaken and will find in the long run that a single drop of poison poisons the whole mass ... The man who is pure, and who dares, does all things.

I lie as truthfully as I can.

The worst thing you can be is a liar. . . . Okay, fine, yes, the worst thing you can be is a Nazi, but then number two is liar. Nazi one, liar two.

A righteous man hates lying, But a wicked man is loathsome and comes to shame.

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

He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.

The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue; a half-truth is always the ally of some vice.