Lying Consequences Quotes

We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.

I liked Bugs Bunny. He was pretty good. He's annoying as a duck and he's anti-proletarian. Daffy Duck I couldn't see what was going on with him. He seemed like he was angry about something. My favorite one though is Pinocchio. I liked that kid. He was made of wood. I liked that for a start. I also liked how he'd tell a lie and his nose would grow. I liked the morality of that.

The difference between the truth and a lie is that both of them can hurt, but only one will take the time to heal you afterward.

He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.

When one of your children tells a lie, be honest with him; tell him that you have told hundreds of them yourself. Tell him it is not the best way; that you have tried it. Tell him as the man did in Maine when his boy left home: "John, honesty is the best policy; I have tried both."

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.

Once in a while, when I was younger, I'd lie, then tell the truth, and I'd feel better.

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

There’s no question that once a president lies, people are then quite jaded in how they look at that president. But that quickly wears off. Trust reasserts itself. And then people are vulnerable all over again.

Anyone who does not feel sufficiently strong in memory should not meddle with lying.

Lying eats into the soul. If it becomes a habit it frays the edge of your spirit. Truth telling, although sometimes harder to do, strengthens your heart. It serves a person ill not to tell the truth.

Lies suck; they tear you apart from the inside out.

You know what happens to people who lie. They get sick and they get cancer. If they keep lying, they get it again.

Do we have to have the 'don't lie to the telepath' talk again? It won't take long. I say 'don't lie to the telepath, it never works,' you glare at me, and then you go find something you can hit.

I used to call him Pinocchio on the sets. Pinocchio's nose would turn red if he lied. Aamir would turn red-faced if he had to tell a lie.