Ally Carter Quotes

On the whole, I should say that the person who likes to lie should never, in any circumstances, be allowed to. Leave the lying to the people who hate it. You will not find them indulging often.

Make a habit of telling the truth, or make a habit of lying: to decide each case on its own merits is exhausting, and hardly ever worth it.

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

Go ahead and gamble a lie. A person who will not tell you seven lies within a hundred yards is useless as a man.

Lying is the strongest acknowledgement of the force of truth.

The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.

I can't tell a lie - not even when I hear one.

He who is dishonest with respect to speech, is dishonest in everything.

I cannot stand dishonesty among people, the tendency to prevaricate.

There is no such thing as a good writer and a bad liar.

There never was a liar that had not a spot in him where he could not help admiring truth.

Do the devils lie? No; for then even hell could not subsist.

George Washington was the president who could never tell a lie, and Richard Nixon was the president who could never tell the truth. Donald Trump is truly the president who can't tell the difference.

A lie stands on one leg, truth on two.

There are 869 different forms of lying, but only one of them has been squarely forbidden. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.

There were people who lied for gain, people who lied from pain, people who lied simply because the concept of telling the truth was utterly alien to them . . . and then there were people who lied because they were waiting for it to be time to tell the truth.

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.

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

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

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

All lies, white or black, disgrace a gentleman, although I grant there is a difference: to say the least of it, it is a dangerous habit, for white lies are but the gentleman ushers to black ones.

Leaders must not be naive. I used to say, "Liars shouldn't lie." What a sad waste of words that is! I found out liars are supposed to lie. That's why we call them liars - they lie! What else would you expect them to do?