Honesty
I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.
- Butler, Samuel
The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
- Butler, Samuel
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
- Butler, Samuel
And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.
- Byron, Lord
All truth is not to be told at all times.
- Fuller, Thomas
Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another.
- Homer
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.
- Johnson, Samuel
An honest man is always a child.
- Martial
I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
- Montaigne, Michel De
'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.
- Pope, Alexander
To thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.
- Shakespeare, William
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
- Socrates
A lie never lives to be old.
- Sophocles
A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
- Tennyson, Alfred Lord
When in doubt tell the truth.
- Twain, Mark
