Jean-Claude Juncker Quotes

White lies always introduce others of a darker complexion.

Little white lies are told by humans all the time. Indeed, lying is often how we get through each day in a happy little bubble. We spend time and energy rationalizing our own behaviors, beliefs and decision-making processes.

You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.

Like many people, I have a fascination with lies and the people who tell them. I wouldn't say I've never told a lie, but I don't think I've ever told one without both assuming I would be found out and feeling absolutely rotten about it.

When a majority could benefit only its enemies by telling the truth, history shows that honorable men often preferred to tell what is untrue.

Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; But when the truth entails tremendous ruin, To speak dishonorably is pardonable.

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

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

It was a lie but he believed in telling lies to people. Truth telling and medicine just didn't go together except in dire emergencies, if then.

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.

One must lie under certain circumstances and at all times when one can't do anything about them.

Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.

Your problem is that you have been too honest for too long. Once you start doing it, lying is simpler than breathing.

When a man lies, he murders some part of the world.

She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.

The best crime novels are all based on people keeping secrets. All lying - you may think a lie is harmless, but you put them all together and there's a calamity.

People need good lies. There are too many bad ones.

I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.

Little white lies are part of everyday life. If you're in court being charged with a felony, you're probably going to be tempted to lie. Or if your girlfriend asks you if the sweater she is wearing makes her look fat; you're going to lie because you love that person. There are different reasons and justifications to lie; it's human nature.

It's okay to lie as long as you reach a higher truth doing it.

Lying can never save us from another lie.

Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.

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 don't tolerate liars. When somebody lies to me, that's really, like, just unbearable.

We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.