Randa Abdel-Fattah Quotes

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

By lying, we deny others a view of the world as it is. Our dishonesty not only influences the choices they make, it often determines the choices they can make—and in ways we cannot always predict. Every lie is a direct assault upon the autonomy of those we lie to.

I never lie," I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love.

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

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

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.

What I cannot forgive is dishonesty - and no matter what, or how hard, I would rather know the truth of which I today had such a clear & devastating vision from his mouth than hear foul evasions, blurrings and rattiness.

Listen honey, would I lie to you to get in your pants?

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!

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

It is better to disappoint people with the truth than to appease them with a lie.

A new study found that most people can't go 10 minutes without lying. But since the study took 20 minutes nobody knows what to believe.

Never lie under any circumstances.

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.

Integrity makes my job easier. It's deception and dishonesty that requires so much diligent effort.

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.

I'd lie for you and that's the truth.

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

By a lie a man throws away and, as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man. A man who himself does not believe what he tells another ... has even less worth than if he were a mere thing. ... makes himself a mere deceptive appearance of man, not man himself.

When you lie there's always going to be a consequence. Lying never wins at the end.

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.

With other people, Hilly hands out lies like the Presbyterians hand out guilt, but it's our own silent agreement, this strict honesty, perhaps the one thing that has kept us friends

Go ahead and gamble a lie. A person who will not tell you seven lies within a hundred yards is useless as a man.

A man will pass better through the world with a thousand open errors upon his back than in being detected in one sly falsehood. When one is detected, a thousand are suspected.