Dwight L. Moody Quotes

Better a child should be ignorant of a thousand truths than have consecrated in its heart a single lie.

It is better to die than to tell a lie

Enough white lies can scorch the earth black.

There is no such thing as white lies; a lie is as black as a coalpit, and twice as foul.

Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind.

You shall not steal, nor deal falsely, nor lie to one another.

It is a poor cause which has to be lied for regularly.

It's okay to lie as long as you reach a higher truth doing it.

Nobody can honestly say that they never lie.

It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.

There's hostility to lying, and there should be.

There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite.

I believe in absolute honesty and sensible social lies.

I don’t like to lie – so there’d better be a good reason why I’m doing it.

The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue; a half-truth is always the ally of some vice.

Alanna didn't approve of lying, but in a pinch a lie was sometimes better than the truth.

Never lie under any circumstances.

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.

You have to start out learning to believe the little lies. "So we can believe the big ones?" Yes. Justice, mercy, duty. That sort of thing.

It is my belief... that the truth is generally preferable to lies.

Honesty is always good, except when it's better to lie.

Nothing makes a man so virtuous as belief of the truth. A lying doctrine will soon beget a lying practice. A man cannot have an erroneous belief without by-and-by having an erroneous life. I believe the one thing naturally begets the other.

Never tell a lie when you can bullshit your way through it

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

I'll tell you something that's completely true - you can, as a man, obtain everything you want with the truth. If you lie, first of all you've got to be a very good lying actor, which is tres difficile. And it's going to give you poison inside the body.