Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

He who does not need to lie is proud of not being a liar.

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

Have you weaned yourself of your off-putting proclivity for not telling the truth/

I don't tell lies. I don't need to.

The lie is so vile, that even if it were in speaking well of godly things, it would take off something from God's grace; and Truth is so excellent, that if it praises but small things they become noble.

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

By a lie a man throws away and, as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man. A man who himself does not believe what he tells another ... has even less worth than if he were a mere thing. ... makes himself a mere deceptive appearance of man, not man himself.

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

No lie ever reaches old age.

Truth never was indebted to a lie.

Don't lie if you don't have to.

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

I don't like to tell lies.

I'm not a liar.

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

I'm not big on lying. I don't like that at all.

The truthful man is usually a liar.

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

Liars sometimes tell the truth; they don’t tell lies all the time.

There is no truth in him, and men who cannot tell the truth are not to be trusted either in public or private life.

I never lie in interviews.

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

Study after study shows that people are much less likely to lie to a person they consider to be honest.

I'm not a particularly good liar.

I'm honest.