Khaled Hosseini Quotes

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.

To tell a falsehood is like the cut of a saber: for though the wound may heal, the scar of it will remain.

I'm a very firm believer that a liar is a cheat and a thief and a crook. I don't like liars. I never lie. I always told my own child, "If you murder somebody, tell me. I'll help you hide the body. But don't you lie to me.

An injurious truth has no merit over an injurious lie. Neither should ever be uttered. The man who speaks an injurious truth, lest his soul be not saved if he do otherwise, should reflect that that sort of a soul is not strictly worth saving.

Enough white lies can scorch the earth black.

We cannot teach children the danger of telling lies to men without realising, on the man's part, the danger of telling lies to children. A single untruth on the part of the master will destroy the results of his education.

I'm a really bad liar. My mom finds out every time, especially now that she's got Facebook.

You shall not steal, nor deal falsely, nor lie to one another.

Well, I actually tell my son that I don't have any hair because he asked me the same question that I gave it to him when he was born, so he actually still believes that. He's five years old.

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

Better a child should be ignorant of a thousand truths than have consecrated in its heart a single lie.

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.

If you take in a lie, you must take in all that belongs to it.

If a President of the United States ever lied to the American people, he should resign.

Give a child the habit of sacredly regarding the truth - of carefully respecting the property of others - of scrupulously abstaining from all acts of improvidence which can involve him in distress, and he will just as likely think of rushing into the element in which he cannot breathe, as of lying or cheating or stealing.

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.

One who steals has no right to complain if he is robbed.

He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.

If you are ever going to lie, you go to jail for the lie rather than the crime. So believe me, don't ever lie.

Those who deceive others, deceive themselves, as they will find at last, to their cost.

We create an environment where it is alright to hate, to steal, to cheat, and to lie if we dress it up with symbols of respectability, dignity and love.

If you lie to a person at least tell someone else you've lied to the truth. It balances out your karma.

Unethical conduct is actually the conduct of destruction and fear; lies are told because one is afraid of the consequences should one tell the truth; thus, the liar is inevitably a coward, the coward is inevitably a liar.

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

His mind reeled. Now, empowered to ask questions of utmost rudeness-and promised answers-he could, conceivably (though it was almost unimaginable), ask someone, some adult, his father perhaps: "Do you lie?" But he would have no way of knowing if the answer he received was true.