Judith McNaught Quotes

Enough white lies can scorch the earth black.

A new study found that most people can't go 10 minutes without lying. But since the study took 20 minutes nobody knows what to believe.

He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.

If you will lie about the little things, before long you’ll lie about bigger things.

To tell a falsehood is like the cut of a saber: for though the wound may heal, the scar of it will remain.

A lie is a very short wick in a very small lamp. The oil of reputation is very soon sucked up and gone. And just as soon as a man is known to lie, he is like a two-foot pump in a hundred-foot well. He cannot touch bottom at all.

If you tell a lie, always rehearse it. If it don't sound good to you, it won't sound good to anybody.

He who has once deviated from the truth, usually commits perjury with as little scruple as he would tell a lie.

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

A small lie, if it actually is a lie, condemns a man as much as a big and black falsehood. If a man will deliberately cheat to the amount of a single cent, give him opportunity and he would cheat to any amount.

I think you can be an honest person and lie about any number of things.

In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.

they reminded me of the biggest liar I ever knew personally. Was a farmer, too. Reputation of pretty good farmer at that, but he lied so he had to hire another man to call his pigs.

A man will pass better through the world with a thousand open errors upon his back than in being detected in one sly falsehood. When one is detected, a thousand are suspected.

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

You shall not steal, nor deal falsely, nor lie to one another.

It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.

Not all teammates tell the truth.

I'm not big on lying. I don't like that at all.

With lies you may go ahead in the world, but you can never go back.

I've become very conscious of how easy it is for people to lie.

A lot of people are afraid to lie to me.

You want to be very careful about lying; otherwise you are nearly sure to get caught.