Henry David Thoreau Quotes

One of my weaknesses happens to be lying, and I could tell you that I'm never going to lie again in my life, but that would be a lie.

If you're lying, you're lying.

Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.

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

Saying what you believe others want to hear is, of course, a form of lying.

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

I always felt like, when you're lying, you're kind of pretending to be something you're not.

Deception, flattering, lying, deluding, talking behind the back, putting up a false front, living in borrowed splendor, wearing a mask, hiding behind convention, playing a role for others and for oneself -- in short, a continuous fluttering around the solitary flame of vanity -- is so much the rule and the law among men that there is almost nothing which is less comprehensible than how an honest and pure drive for truth could have arisen among them.

What have I eaten? Lies and smiles.

Had he been willing to live a hypocrite, he would have been respectable, he at least could have died surrounded by other hypocrites, and at his death there would have been an imposing funeral, with miles of carriages, filled with hypocrites, and above his hypocritical dust there would have been a hypocritical monument covered with lies.

Everybody lies...every day, every hour, awake, asleep, in his dreams, in his joy, in his mourning. If he keeps his tongue still his hands, his feet, his eyes, his attitude will convey deception.

Men are liars. We'll lie about lying if we have to. I'm an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a positive.

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

Well, the truth is that a lot of people lie about their health, they lie about the finances, they lie about things at work, they lie about things.

There are two ways of lying. One, not telling the truth and the other, making up statistics.

I couldn't tell the truth if my life depended on it.

The priest is the personification of falsehood.

Too many people looked to me in the eye and did not tell me the truth.

Every word she writes is a lie, including and and the.

In society, one doesn't tell the truth, one tells the exact opposite.

Put away from you a dissembling mouth.

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

I doubt he knows himself when he’s not telling the truth.

I don't know what else to do other than tell people what I think to be untruths.

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