Madalyn Murray O'Hair Quotes

Always be sincere, even if you don't mean it.

Put away from you a dissembling mouth.

We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.

Fakery in allegiance to the truth.

It might be said that the pose of absolute honesty is the most dishonest one of all.

All I can say is anybody who's spent most of his life living a lie is not somebody I admire.

I don't lie," I lied.

She'd tried her hand at most things, but drew the line at honesty.

When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to [profess] things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.

You take the lies out of him, and he'll shrink to the size of your hat; you take the malice out of him, and he'll disappear.

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

If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false statement I could never stay there five minutes. But why come out? The streetis as false as the church, and when I get to my house, or to my manners, or to my speech, I have not got away from the lie.

Talk and action are two different things.

We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.

Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so.

I mean if you have ever found a politician who says, 'No, no, I would do everything exactly as I did,' then you can tell when he is lying because his lips are moving.

I don't want to lie. I dislike dishonesty. And I work in Hollywood, a town and a business that relies on a lot of falsehoods with people hiding behind different facades. I don't want to be a part of that.

I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.

Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.

I am not honest.

I abhor hypocrisy.

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.

Sincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere.

We all respect sincerity in our friends and acquaintances, but Hollywood is willing to pay for it.

Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.