Storm Jameson Quotes

I'll never speak to another person without telling the truth. I've been a cruel man in my time, I've been a devious man in my time, like everybody else. I've told lies in my time. But I've seen enough suffering to experiment with the truth.

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.

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

I'd rather deal with the consequences of the truth rather than the benefits of a lie.

Telling the truth and making someone cry is better than telling a lie and making someone smile.

I believe in absolute honesty and sensible social lies.

Never lie under any circumstances.

You never feel good when you lie. It doesn't matter how much you want something, if you lie to somebody you love, and they actually, sincerely believe you, you feel like a cockroach that needs some serious Raid action.

Please be truthful, but also please be benevolent, please.

If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.

If you are going to do something that you have to lie about, don't do it, it's very simple.

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.

He who does not lie does not know what truth is.

So, I think that's the centerpiece of morality: Don't lie. But to do that, you have to go a step further and find out what the truth is.

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.

I think you can never ever lie, ever. If you don't know, say, 'I don't know'.

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

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

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

The basis of Ronald Reagan was his humanity. I might not have agreed with his politics, but my research - all I read about him and by him - was that he was revered because he had a big heart. He was very religious and sincere. He believed that one spoke truths because, otherwise, people would know you were lying. None of that even applies to Trump.

I don't cheat.

You want to be very careful about lying; otherwise you are nearly sure to get caught.

If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.

The truth is always easier than a lie or an evasion - easier to deal with and easier to live with.