Martin Farquhar Tupper Quotes

We never deceive people to benefit them, for knavery is a compound of wickedness and falsehood.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

I do not believe in hypocrisy.

Don't lie if you don't have to.

No matter what you do, be honest. That sticks out in Washington.

Truth is a habit of integrity, not a strategy of politics.

Living on hypocrisy is not a healthy diet for patriots.

Truth is the highest virtue, but higher still is truthful living.

There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite.

We may argue eloquently that 'Honesty is the best Policy' - unfortunately, the moment honesty is adopted for the sake of policy it mysteriously ceases to be honesty.

I believe in absolute honesty and sensible social lies.

Never lie under any circumstances.

Honesty is the recognition of the fact that the unreal is unreal and can have no value, that neither love nor fame nor cash is a value if obtained by fraud.

It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.

I renounce falsehood, whatsoever be the guise it assumes, and I embrace truth, wheresoever I find it.

Since in the long run deception is likely to be found out, your character had better not only seem good, but be it.

So, I think that's the centerpiece of morality: Don't lie. But to do that, you have to go a step further and find out what the truth is.

Never tell a lie-except for practice.

The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.

I don't want to lie. I dislike dishonesty. And I work in Hollywood, a town and a business that relies on a lot of falsehoods with people hiding behind different facades. I don't want to be a part of that.

We are not hypocrites in our sleep.

I am not honest.

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

I don't like to tell lies.

No legacy is so rich as honesty.