Jacqueline Carey Quotes

In matters of honesty, there are no shortcuts; no little white lies, or big black lies, only the simple, honest truth spoken in total candor... Being true is different than being honest.

I'm actually incapable of lying. I'm like a parody of a person who can't lie.

I can take any truth; just don't lie to me.

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

All I want and all I even ask of people in Hollywood is look, just be honest with me. Please don't lie to me. Whatever the situation is, be honest with me.

I just have an inability to lie.

I'm almost incapable of lying. I'd be a terrible spy.

I would rather be uncomfortable with the truth than to be lied to in comfort. That's just my nature.

It's a weird thing about the truth: It protects you. What really makes you vulnerable is when you're lying because you're going to get caught. When you tell the truth, there's a strange relief that comes.

Put away from you a dissembling mouth.

Not knowing the answer is better than consciously misleading.

I never really tell lies, and sometimes it has worked against me.

It's so much easier to be truthful. Maybe I'm just too lazy to lie.

In love, I've been a deceiver. But I realized being honest is so much easier than lying and being deceitful.

I don't like people lying; I like honesty.

I'm not a good liar. I just tell the truth; I think that's the best way.

I'm not going to lie to people.

I'm not one for lying to children.

The truth is always easier than a lie or an evasion - easier to deal with and easier to live with.

I'd rather get bad news from an honest man than lies from a flatterer.

Candor is the only way I know how to do it. I'm way too old to change. At the end of the day, I believe the truth is stronger than any lie that's out there.

It is better to disappoint people with the truth than to appease them with a lie.

By lying, we deny others a view of the world as it is. Our dishonesty not only influences the choices they make, it often determines the choices they can make—and in ways we cannot always predict. Every lie is a direct assault upon the autonomy of those we lie to.

He who tells the truth says almost nothing.