Bernie Taupin Quotes

A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.

Honestly we never lied to people about who we were. Usually the wackier interviews came to pass because the interview subjects, aware that we were Comedy Central, just wanted to get their stories out.

In the end a lie is a lie.

It's hard to explain and best thing to do is not be false.

A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.

If falsehood, like truth, had but one face, we would be more on equal terms. For we would consider the contrary of what the liar said to be certain. But the opposite of truth has a hundred thousand faces and an infinite field.

Liars are the cause of all the sins and crimes in the world.

A liar must have a good memory. -Mendacem oportet esse memorem

No woman is capable of being beautiful who is not incapable of being false.

Lies exist only to be extinguished.

Nearly everyone will lie to you, given the right circumstances.

None of us suffers as much as we should, or loves as much as we say. Love is the first lie; wisdom the last.

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

Faith makes blessed. Consequently it lies.

Your truths are worse than your lies.

Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult. Even with no motive to be false, it is very hard to say the exact truth.

No man should tell a lie unless he is shrewd enough to recognize the time for renouncing it, if and when it comes, and knows how to renounce it gracefully.

A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.

It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. Producing bullshit requires no such conviction.

I tried to be diplomatic, but mostly I just lied a lot.

Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.

Falsehood is never in words; it is in things.

Omission is a sin only if, in the process of deceiving, you forget the truth. Lying is a sin only if, in the process, the lie becomes the only truth.

not keeping a promise is the same as lying!

You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.