Jerry Hall Quotes

It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.

For peace of mind, I will lie about any thing at any time.

The truth is always easier than a lie or an evasion - easier to deal with and easier to live with.

Now you say you have to absolutely truthful. Sincerity is the main thing, and truthfulness is the main thing and don't lie to anybody ... and you'll get ahead. Brother you sure will. You'll get ahead right on that cycle of action, right toward zero! It's a trap not being able to prevaricate ... This makes life more colorful!

Once ...Why ...lie? ...when ...truth is ...the easier path

Only the difference between truth and lies, courage and cowardice.

He who has once deviated from the truth, usually commits perjury with as little scruple as he would tell a lie.

Truth-telling frightens me. Lying confuses me.

Lying has become so much the accepted norm that people lie even when it would be simpler to tell the truth.

A small lie, if it actually is a lie, condemns a man as much as a big and black falsehood. If a man will deliberately cheat to the amount of a single cent, give him opportunity and he would cheat to any amount.

It is best, if possible, to deceive no one; for he that ... begins by deceiving others, will end ... by deceiving himself.

The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.

The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.

Have you weaned yourself of your off-putting proclivity for not telling the truth/

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

I cannot stand dishonesty among people, the tendency to prevaricate.

You want to be very careful about lying; otherwise you are nearly sure to get caught.

There is no such thing as a good writer and a bad liar.

There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite.

Do the devils lie? No; for then even hell could not subsist.

On the whole, I should say that the person who likes to lie should never, in any circumstances, be allowed to. Leave the lying to the people who hate it. You will not find them indulging often.

Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.

There were people who lied for gain, people who lied from pain, people who lied simply because the concept of telling the truth was utterly alien to them . . . and then there were people who lied because they were waiting for it to be time to tell the truth.

Widespread cultural acceptance of lying is a primary reason many of us will never know love