Vanessa Carlton Quotes

There comes a moment in every life when a choice must be made between right and wrong, between good and evil, between light and darkness. These decisions are made in an instant, but with repercussions that last a lifetime.

Shall I pass by and leave you lying there because of the expedition you led against Greece, or shall I set you up again because of your magnanimity and your virtues in other respects?

All of us have moments in our lives when we have to choose between what we know is right and what we feel obligated to do.

White lies always introduce others of a darker complexion.

Lying can never save us from another lie.

There are times when lying is the most sacred of duties.

The bad guys always fight dirty, and the good guys always fight clean.

It's easier to tell a lie, than to tell the truth. It's easier to kill a fly, than it is to turn it loose.

A hero must be honorable, must have honor. And you can't have honor if you're a liar. There is no honor in lying.

When treating with liars, even an honest man must lie.

You just have to choose which wrong choice feels the least wrong.

How shall Integrity face Oppression? What shall Honesty do in the face of Deception, Decency in the face of Insult, Self-Defense before Blows? How shall Desert and Accomplishment meet Despising, Detraction, and Lies? What shall Virtue do to meet Brute Force? There are so many answers and so contradictory; and such differences for those on the one hand who meet questions similar to this once a year or once a decade, and those who face them hourly and daily.

Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort. Remember Cedric Diggory.

Alanna didn't approve of lying, but in a pinch a lie was sometimes better than the truth.

Once you tell your first lie, the first time you lie for him, you are in it with him, and then you are lost.

When the going gets tough, you have to lie.

If I told you, you might be forced to lie about it. Not that you aren't really good at it, but why put an old man in that position?

In a room sit three great men, a king, a priest, and a rich man with his gold. Between them stands a sellsword, a little man of common birth and no great mind. Each of the great ones bids him slay the other two. ‘Do it,’ says the king, ‘for I am your lawful ruler.’ ‘Do it,’ says the priest, ‘for I command you in the names of the gods.’ ‘Do it,’ says the rich man, ‘and all this gold shall be yours.’ So tell me—who lives and who dies?

We can now destroy or we can cherish-the choice is ours.

People seldom tell the truths that are worth telling. We ought to choose our truths as carefully as we choose our lies and to select our virtues with as much thought as we bestow upon the selection of our enemies.

There are worse things than a lie... I have found... that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.

I'm not saying you did the wrong thing. I'm not even saying it wasn't something I'd thought of doing, myself. But even if it was the just thing to do, or the fitting thing, it still wasn't the right thing.

Of two Evils we take the less.

There were lies we told to save ourselves, and then there were lies we told to rescue others. What counted more, the mistruth, or the greater good?

Sometimes you have to choose between a bunch of wrong choices and no right ones. You just have to choose which wrong choices feels the least wrong.