Consequences of Lying Quotes

What harm would it do, if a man told a good strong lie for the sake of the good.

If a public figure tells a whopping lie once in his life, it'll haunt him into his grave. If he lies morning, noon and night, it will become almost impossible to remember any one particular lie.

Something therefore always remains and sticks from the most imprudent of lies, a fact which all bodies and individuals concerned in the art of lying in this world know only too well, and therefore they stop at nothing to achieve this end.

When we tell little white lies, we become progressively color-blind. It is better to remain silent than to mislead.

The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

Lies save trouble now, but may return in thunder and lightning.

Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar.

I'd rather deal with the consequences of the truth rather than the benefits of a lie.

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.

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

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.

There are a lot of people who lie and get away with it, and that's just a fact.

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

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

It doesn't benefit me to lie to people. They're eventually going to find out the truth, and then where am I? That's the problem with liberalism and socialism, by the way: it has to be propped up by lies.

Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true.

A little lie is like a little pregnancy – it doesn't take long before everyone knows.

The thing about lying is, it is quite exhausting - you have to remember a lot.

There's always a price you pay when you lie. Once you introduce a lie into a relationship, even for the best of intentions, it is always there. Whenever you’re with that person again, that lie is in the room too. It sits on your shoulder. Good lie or bad lie, it's in the room with you forever now. It's your constant companion.

There is no excuse for perjury - never, never, never. There is truth, and the truth demands respect.

You can legally lie about the real world to your heart's content, but until some human being is materially damaged, nobody will complain.

There is a price to pay for speaking the truth. There is a bigger price for living a lie.

The public, by and large, trusts its leaders not only to tell the truth, but to get the job done. When they don’t get the job done, they get punished, and when they don’t get the job done and it comes out that they lied, they’re in really serious trouble. This is what happened to [Lyndon] Johnson and it’s what happened to [George W,] Bush. If you’re going to tell a lie, make sure the policy works out.

Lying makes a problem part of the future; truth makes a problem part of the past.

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