Popular Quotes from Great Minds

I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.

All truth is not to be told at all times.

Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another.

I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him; you have no business with consequences you are to tell the truth.

An honest man is always a child.

I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.

'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.

To thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

A lie never lives to be old.

A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.

When in doubt tell the truth.