Do not let us lie at all. Do not think of one falsity as harmless, and another as slight, and another as unintended.
—John Ruskin
Showing posts with label lying. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lying. Show all posts
Sunday, November 29, 2020
Post #3047
Friday, October 19, 2018
Wednesday, October 10, 2018
Post #2673
When thou art obliged to speak, be sure to speak the truth ; for equivocation is half-way to lying, and lying is the whole way to hell.
—William Penn
—William Penn
Thursday, January 05, 2017
Post #2244
It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
—Samuel Johnson
—Samuel Johnson
Wednesday, January 13, 2016
Post #1988
The gain of lying is nothing else but not to be trusted of any, nor to be believed when we say the truth.
—Sir Walter Raleigh
Friday, May 15, 2015
Monday, December 29, 2014
Post #1716
Every brave man is a man of his word; to such base vices he cannot stoop, and shuns more than death the shame of lying.
—Pierre Corneille
—Pierre Corneille
Wednesday, May 07, 2014
Post #1543
Lying is a crime the least liable to variation in its definitions. A child, will upon the slightest temptation, tell an untruth as readily as the truth. That is, as soon as he can suspect that it will be to his advantage; and the dread that he afterward has of telling a lie is acquired principally by his being threatened, punished, and terrified by those who detect him in it, till at length, a number of painful impressions are annexed to the telling of an untruth and he comes even to shudder at the thought of it.
—Joseph Priestley
—Joseph Priestley
A deadly viper once bit a hole snipe's hide; But 'twas the viper, not the snipe, that died.
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