Robert E. Lee Quotes

It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.

Put away from you a dissembling mouth.

Be a hypocrite if you like, but don't talk like one.

Fakery in allegiance to the truth.

Men are liars. We lie about lying if we have to.

What sort of an age is this where a man becomes one's enemy only when his back is turned?

The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.

Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another.

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

A creep is someone who claims he's one thing but he's actually another.

There's an old saying amongst players in football talking about your general manger and coaches, they speak with a forked tongue.

The truthful man is usually a liar.

The American people are tired of liars and people who pretend to be something they're not.

The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!

As to you, sir, treacherous in private friendship and … a hypocrite in public life, the world will be puzzled to decide whether you are an apostate or an imposter, whether you have abandoned good principles, or whether you ever had any.

Hypocrisy is not the failure to practice what you preach but the failure to believe it. Hypocrisy is propaganda.

It might be said that the pose of absolute honesty is the most dishonest one of all.

All I can say is anybody who's spent most of his life living a lie is not somebody I admire.

You become uneasy with people in direct proportion to how many lies you have to keep track of in their presence.

The only way the devil really exists in my opinion... is in interactions with people who don't walk the walk and talk the talk; people who act one way, or talk one way and then do another. Those are the deals with the devil. I don't see the devil as somebody who is a horned, goateed guy with a fork in his hand that's there to continuously stab me and send my soul to hell. I don't see it that way at all.

I don't lie," I lied.

The hypocrite recognizes the honest man as his deadly enemy.

Honesty is such a lonely word. Everyone is so untrue.

I hate a liar. Maybe because I'm such a good one myself, heh? Anyway, to find someone has told an out and out lie puts him on the other side of the fence from me for all time.