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Lying Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll
- When one of your children tells a lie, be honest with him; tell him that you have told hundreds of them yourself. Tell him it…
- Tell me there is a God in the serene heavens that will damn his children for the expression of an honest belief! More men have…
- When your little child tells a lie, do not rush at him as though the world were about to go into bankruptcy. Be honest with…
- I thank thee, Mother Nature, that thou hast put ingenuity enough in the brain of a child, when attacked by a brutal parent, to throw…
- Nothing could add to the horror of hell, except the presence of its creator, God. While I have life, as long as I draw breath,…
- The old doctrine that God wanted man to do something for him, and that he kept a watchful eye upon all the children of men;…
- In a world of cruelty, sympathy is a crime, and in a world of lies, truth is blasphemy.
- A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe,…
- Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.
More Lying Quotes
- The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar… — Hannah Arendt
- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
- I don't want to lie. I dislike dishonesty. And I work in Hollywood, a town and a business that relies on a… — David Arquette
- The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the… — Mary Astell
- It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- A man should be upright, not be kept upright. — Marcus Aurelius
- The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious. — Marcus Aurelius