Molly Crabapple Quotes

It seems, by today's standards, that it's better to seek approval than to tell the truth. It's better to utter sweet nothings than to boldly say something of substance.

I have never, ever, as God is my witness, contrived a single debate in a single show.

People say they hate having fake people around, but when you keep it real, they hate you even more. People don't like the truth.

Can’t promise I’ll stay. That would be lying. And I’m so, so tired of lies.

And if your friends make fun of you for chasing your dream, remember—just lie.

Falsehood is never better than truth, theft better than honesty, treachery better than loyalty, cowardice better than courage.

Nothing gives such a blow to friendship as the detecting another in an untruth. It strikes at the root of our confidence ever after.

No maxim can be more pernicious than that which would teach us to consult the temper of the times, and to tell only so much as we imagine our contemporaries will be able to bear.

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.

Men will not receive the truth from their enemies, and it is seldom offered to them by their friends.

You’ve always got me” “Always?” “Didn’t I just say so?” “Yes” “Am I liar? “ “No.” I lied.

My husband may have his faults, but he has never lied to me.

Breach of promise is a base surrender of truth.

Our opinions are not our own, but in the power of sympathy. If a person tells us a palpable falsehood, we not only dare not contradict him, but we dare hardly disbelieve him to his face. A lie boldly uttered has the effect of truth for the instant.

Truth never turns to rebuke falsehood; her own straightforwardness is the severest correction.

Besides, you want the unvarnished and ungarnished truth, and I'm no hand for that. I'm a lawyer.

Honesty is a rare commodity in a palace, and that is why so many fairy-tale marriages end up on the rocks.

Faithful heart may have froward tongue.

I did not deceive you, mon ami. At most, I permitted you to deceive yourself.

Fidelity is simply daring to be true in small things as well as great.

The life of an honest man must be a perpetual infidelity.

when you're honest with yourself, often times you betray someone else!

Put a rogue in the limelight and he will act like an honest man.

There is so much falsehood both at home and at school. At home one must not speak, and at school we have to stand and tell lies to the children.

It’s better to be sworn to an honest fool than to a lying scholar