Shannon Purser Quotes

It's a lie, but Heaven will forgive you for it.

When you fail to tell the truth, you are kept bound to the past in ways that devastate your soul.

One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie.

If I hear a lie in my life with my children, with my wife, my work, my audiences, I want to annihilate myself, vaporize myself and wipe myself off the face of the earth.

I chose to compromise my principles. I broke my promise to always tell the truth.

When I was a kid, I got in trouble for lying a lot, and I had a teacher say, 'Instead of lying, write it down, because if you write it down, it's not a lie anymore; it's fiction.'

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

When you have a problem, if you tell the truth, the problem becomes part of your past. If you lie, it becomes part of your future.

Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls. The least admixture of a lie-for example, the taint of vanity, the least attempt to make a good impression, a favorable appearance-will instantly vitiate the effect.

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

Lying makes a problem part of the future; truth makes a problem part of the past.

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.

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.

I refuse to lie to children.

Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.

Once in a while, when I was younger, I'd lie, then tell the truth, and I'd feel better.

I wish to Christ I could make up a really great lie. Sometimes, after an interview, I say to myself, 'Man, you were so honest - can't you have some fun? Can't you do some really down and dirty lying?' But the puritan in me thinks that if I tell a lie, I'll be punished.

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

We talk about honesty, but the reality is we have lots of human values, and they are not all compatible. We don't always tell the truth about everything, no matter what the consequences.

A good memory is needed after one has lied.

I've told lots of lies in my life. I try not to lie, but I still do. It's very difficult to get to 37 and not be ashamed of something you've done. But I think your life is easier, ultimately, if you're honest.

I don't do much lying in real life because I don't get away with it.

With lies you may go ahead in the world, but you can never go back.

Lying was a way of life. The solution to the problem is ultrasimple: tell the truth, no matter how painful.