Justin Welby Quotes

It is much harder to lie to someone's face. But. It is also much harder to tell the truth to someone's face.

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

All I want and all I even ask of people in Hollywood is look, just be honest with me. Please don't lie to me. Whatever the situation is, be honest with me.

I don't like people lying; I like honesty.

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

I like men with honest, frank eyes. And that's the reason I cannot talk anyone who has their sunglasses on.

By lying, we deny others a view of the world as it is. Our dishonesty not only influences the choices they make, it often determines the choices they can make—and in ways we cannot always predict. Every lie is a direct assault upon the autonomy of those we lie to.

Integrity makes my job easier. It's deception and dishonesty that requires so much diligent effort.

Lies don't fix things. They don't even make things easier, at least not in the long run. Best to tell the truth and then clean up an honest mess.

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.

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

I don't like people lying to me. I don't like people who don't return my calls. I don't like people who won't give me a straight answer. I don't like those kinds of people, and I've been vocal about it.

For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.

I've always operated under the notion that audiences don't always know when they're being lied to, but that they always know when they're being told the truth.

I don't want to lie. I dislike dishonesty. And I work in Hollywood, a town and a business that relies on a lot of falsehoods with people hiding behind different facades. I don't want to be a part of that.

I can take any truth; just don't lie to me.

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

Because no matter what you say in life, the truth will always be the truth. You know when someone is telling the truth, you look in the eyes. I have a tendency to believe people.

The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.

I want to live in my truth. Tell me you don't like me, and I know it. But when you don't tell me, and you work behind my back, it's a lie, and I don't know how to fight that.

Once you lose the honesty in a relationship, I mean, I think you don't have a relationship at all.

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

Since when is anyone truly honest with anyone?

I never lie to my fans.

I'm not big on lying. I don't like that at all.