Believer Quote by Rachel Cohn

There is no possible excuse for a guarded lie. Enthusiastic and impulsive people will sometimes falsify thoughtlessly, but equivocation is malice prepense.

— Hosea Ballou

The worst feeling: when you just have to wait and prepare yourself for the lie.

— Gillian Flynn

Indeed, I was so afraid to dishonour my friends and family by my indiscreet actions, that I rather chose to be accounted a fool,…

— Margaret Cavendish

Prevarication, like honesty, is reflexive, and soon becomes a sturdy habit, as reliable as truth.

— Norman Mailer

I never lied,I just protected my feelings.

— Abhishek Tiwari

The aversion to lying is often a hidden ambition to render our words credible and weighty, and to attach a religious aspect to our…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Avoidance of self deception is a matter of integrity not comfort.

— Orrin Woodward

Be sure that you are not deceiving yourself at any time about actual conditions.

— John D. Rockefeller

How much rationality and higher protection there is in such self-deception, and how much falseness I still require in order to allow myself again…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I have replaced my instinct for secrecy with an instinct for confession.

— Melissa Febos

A lie is an excuse guarded

— Jonathan Swift

Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld