Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

Don't lie if you don't have to.

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.

I just have an inability to lie.

The foundation of morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying.

I'm not a good liar. I just tell the truth; I think that's the best way.

I'm honest to a fault.

A man may be very sincere in good principles, without having good practice.

She'd tried her hand at most things, but drew the line at honesty.

There is an innocence in lying which is the sign of good faith in a cause.

It is always easier to deal in truth and honesty and follow these to their legitimate ends, than it is to construct and adjust a false superstructure upon a false base.

Though I am not naturally honest, I am sometimes so by chance.

If I have one wish which is greater than another, it is, if I had the power, to make men do right; to make them stop their swearing, their lying, their deceiving, to stop trying to injure the innocent, and begin to be honest and upright in all their dealings with one another and honor the name of the Deity.

Honesty is largely a matter of information, of knowing that dishonesty is a mistake. Principle is not as powerful in keeping people straight as a policeman.

The view that honesty is something, and even a virtue, belongs, it is true, to those private opinions which are forbidden in this age of public opinions.

Never tell a lie-except for practice.

In matters of honesty, there are no shortcuts; no little white lies, or big black lies, only the simple, honest truth spoken in total candor... Being true is different than being honest.

To say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God, and a coward towards men.

If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.

Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.

Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.

I'm actually incapable of lying. I'm like a parody of a person who can't lie.

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 don't think lying has any ultimate justification. I don't think it ever leads to anything positive. The good fight to have is not to lie. That's one of the challenges in a way.

We are not hypocrites in our sleep.

No lie ever reaches old age.