Dishonesty And Lying Quotes

Dishonesty And Lying Quotes by Samuel Butler, Robert Louis Stevenson, Frank Lloyd Wright, Thomas Carlyle, George Bancroft, John Locke and many others.

I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.

I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.
Samuel Butler
The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
Robert Louis Stevenson
The truth is more important than the facts.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
Thomas Carlyle
Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.
George Bancroft
Who lies for you will lie against you.
John Locke
Lying is done with words and also with silence.
Adrienne Rich
Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind.
Austin O’Malley
A truth that’s told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
William Blake
It is not without good reason, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.
Michel de Montaigne
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
Winston Churchill
If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory!
Mark Twain
If you tell the truth, you don’t need a long memory.
Jesse Ventura
Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.
Mark Twain
If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.
Mark Twain
Honesty pays, but it doesn’t seem to pay enough to suit some people.
Kin Hubbard
The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
Samuel Butler