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On Lying, Deceit, Dishonesty
He that will love life and see good days, let him refrain his
tongue from evil and his lips that they speak no guile.
1 Peter 3:10
A false balance is abomination to the LORD:
But a just weight is his delight.
Prov 11:1
Lying lips are abomination to the LORD:
But they that deal truly are his delight.
Prov 12:22
A false witness shall not be unpunished,
And he that speaketh lies shall not escape.
Prov 19:5
The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed
to and fro of them that seek death.
Prov 21:6
Keep thy tongue from evil,
And thy lips from speaking guile.
Psa 34:13
He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house:
He that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight.
Psa 101:7
A whispered lie is just as wrong
As one that thunders loud and long.
A lie is a foul blot in a man.
Oh, what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practice to deceive!
A lie begets a lie till they come to generations.
A false witness shall not go unpunished.
Liars begin by imposing upon others, but end by deceiving
themselves.
Credit won by lying is quick in dying.
Falseness often lurks beneath fair hair.
Thou shall not bear false witness against thy neighbor.
Exodus 20:16
A poor man is better than a liar.
A flattering mouth worketh ruin.
Prov. 26:28
Flattery is like friendship in show, but not in fruit.
Flattery fouls the flatterer and the flattered.
A man that flattereth his neighbor spreadeth a net for his
feet.
A wilful falsehood told is a cripple, not able to stand by
itself without someone to support it.
A liar is more easily caught than a thief.
Simple truth was ever wisdom, even among liars.
Truth is the best buckler.
A truth-teller finds the doors closed against him.
Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.
Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and
duplicity than straightforward and simple integrity in another.
A knave would rather quarrel with a brother-knave than with a
fool, but he would rather avoid a quarrel with one honest man
than with both. He can combat a fool by management and
address, and he can conquer a knave by temptations. But the
honest man is neither to be bamboozled nor bribed.
Colton
Let honesty be as the breath of thy soul; then shalt thou reach
the point of happiness, and independence shall be thy shield
and buckler, thy helmet and crown; then shall thy soul walk
upright, nor stoop to the silken wretch because he hath
riches, nor pocket an abuse because the hand which offers it
wears a ring set with diamonds.
Franklin
The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity.
Sir P. Sidney
A straight line is shortest in morals as well as in geometry.
Rahel
He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, is himself
a knave.
Berkeley
To one who said, "I do not believe that there is an honest man
in the world," another replied, "It is impossible that any one man
should know all the world, but quite possible that one may know
himself."
Shenstone
Socrates being asked the way to honest fame, said, "Study to
be what you wish to seem."
Put it out of the power of truth to give you an ill character.
If anybody reports you not to be an honest man let your
practice give him the lie.
Marcus Antoninus
Deceivers are the most dangerous members of society. They
trifle with the best affections of our nature, and violate the
most sacred obligations.
Crabbe
No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to
himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting
bewildered as to which may be true.
Hawthorne
It is as easy to deceive one's self without perceiving it, as
it is difficult to deceive others without their finding out.
Rochefoucauld
He who has not a good memory should never take upon him the
trade of lying.
Montaigne
Falsehood and fraud grow up in every soil, the product of all
climes.
Addison
White lies are but the ushers to black ones.
Marryat
A lie that is half a truth is ever the blackest of lie.
Tennyson
Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them all.
O. W. Holmes
When thou art obliged to speak, be sure to speak the truth;
for equivocation is half way to lying, and lying is whole way
to hell.
Penn
The gain of lying is, not to be trusted of any, nor to be
believed when we speak the truth.
Sir W. Raleigh
Lying is a most disgraceful vice; it first despises God, and
then fears men.
Plutarch
Habitual liars invent falsehoods not to gain any end, or even
to deceive their hearers, but to amuse themselves. It is
partly practice and partly habit. It requires an effort in
them to speak the truth.
Hazlitt
Truth is always consistent with itself, and needs nothing to
help it out; it is always near at hand, sits upon our lips, and
is ready to drop out before we are aware; a lie is
troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one
trick needs a great many more to make it good. It is like
building upon a false foundation, which continually stands in
need of props to shore it up, and proves at last more
chargeable than to have raised a substantial building at first
upon a true and solid foundation.
Addison
A wilful falsehood is a cripple, not able to stand by itself
without another to support it. It is easy to tell a lie but
hard to tell only one lie.
Fuller
When the world has once got hold of a lie, it is astonishing
how hard it is to get it out of the world. You beat it about
the head, till it seems to have given up the ghost, and lo! the
next day it is as healthy as ever.
Bulwer
One lie must be thatched with another, or it will soon rain
through.
Owen
Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but they usually
quarrel among themselves.
Daniel Webster
One lie begets another. Once committed, the liar has to go on
in his course of lying; it is the penalty of his
transgression.
F. Jacox
All that one gains by falsehood is, not to be believed when he
speaks the truth.
Aristotle
He who tells a lie is not sensible how great a task he
undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to
maintain one.
Pope
This is the liar's lot: he is accounted a nuisance, a person
marked out for infamy and scorn.
South
He who would purposely cheat his friend, would cheat his God.
Lavater
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