Joseph Sobran Quotes

Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.

I hate a liar. Maybe because I'm such a good one myself, heh? Anyway, to find someone has told an out and out lie puts him on the other side of the fence from me for all time.

There is no more dangerous experiment than that of undertaking to be one thing before a man's face and another behind his back.

He's the kind of guy who will stab you in the back right to your face.

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

There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.

If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

The truthful man is usually a liar.

We can love an honest rogue, but what is more offensive than a false saint?

Put away from you a dissembling mouth.

Only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

Honesty and wisdom are such a delightful pastime, at another person's expense!

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

People seldom tell the truths that are worth telling. We ought to choose our truths as carefully as we choose our lies and to select our virtues with as much thought as we bestow upon the selection of our enemies.

Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.

The world makes liars of us all.

What sort of an age is this where a man becomes one's enemy only when his back is turned?

A lie cannot live.

When a man lies, he murders some part of the world.

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

A lie never lives to be old.

Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.

Nobody can honestly say that they never lie.

Someone who lies about the little things will lie about the big things too.