Baltasar Gracian Quotes

… they seem to be such as would not swear, whore, nor be drunk, but they would lie, cozen and deceive.

One man lies in his words, and gets a bad reputation; another in his manners, and enjoys a good one.

Honor is the only really good disguise for an occasional act of dishonor.

If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false statement I could never stay there five minutes. But why come out? The streetis as false as the church, and when I get to my house, or to my manners, or to my speech, I have not got away from the lie.

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

Never tell a lie-except for practice.

It takes good memory to keep up a lie.

He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest.

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.

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

Lying can never save us from another lie.

Nobody can honestly say that they never lie.

There's good and bad everywhere in any aspect in life. The only people who we can't really trust are politicians. Because those guys lie to everybody and constantly.

Tact: to lie about others as you would have them lie about you.

The truthful man is usually a liar.

Put away from you a dissembling mouth.

He is only honest who is not discovered.

Ronald Reagan is not a typical politician because he doesn't know how to lie, cheat, and steal. He's always had an agent for that.

A lie should be trampled on and extinguished wherever found.

Living on hypocrisy is not a healthy diet for patriots.

All I can say is anybody who's spent most of his life living a lie is not somebody I admire.

There's no honor in faking an injury. There is no integrity, because you are lying about it.

Observe this, that tho a woman swear, forswear, lie, dissemble, back-bite, be proud, vain, malicious, anything, if she secures the main chance, she's still virtuous; that's a maxim.

You become uneasy with people in direct proportion to how many lies you have to keep track of in their presence.

A lie faces God and shrinks from man.