Character Quote by Thomas Paine

Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe. It is impossible to…

— Thomas Paine

“Tom Paine wrote in The Age of Reason: Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what…

— Carl Sagan

I really know nothing more criminal, more mean, and more ridiculous than lying. It is the production either of malice, cowardice, or vanity; and…

— Lord Chesterfield

If people become accustomed to lying, they will unconsciously commit every possible wrong deed. Before they can act wickedly, they must lie and once…

— Gautama Buddha

People do peculiar things in life and they do for whatever reason but I think one of the greatest crimes in life is when…

— Marco Pierre White

There are not anywhere else so many ways of trickery, so many false lights, so many veils, so many guises, so many illusive deceits,…

— Henry Ward Beecher

The greatest crimes have been found, in many instances, to be compatible with a superstitious piety and devotion; hence it is justly regarded as…

— David Hume

“In modern industrial societies the situation is nearly the reverse. The opportunities for lying are plentiful; privacy is easy to achieve, there are many…

— Paul Ekman

There are people who indulge themselves in a sort of lying, which they reckon innocent, and which in one sense is so; for it…

— Lord Chesterfield

Of all the vices incident to man, lying is the most mean, most contemptible; it evinces a very weak, depraved heart, which shrinks at…

— Josiah Bartlett

Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.

— Lin Yutang

We might make a public moan in the newspapers about the decay of conscience, but in private conversation, no matter what crimes a man…

— Lewis H. Lapham