467 quotes found
“A lie can run round the world before the truth has got its boots on.”
“Life's wildest moment---she kneels on the sidewalk. Everything else she does is lies, lies.”
“Because even if the lie is beautiful, the truth is what you face in the end.”
“It is much harder to lie to someone's face.But.It is also much harder to tell the truth to someone's face.”
“The moment you make someone promise anything is the same moment you ask them to lie to you.”
“lies, truth, loveI have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of it's charms.”
“I don't like the word 'allegorical', I don't like the word 'symbolic' - the word I really like is 'mythic', and people always think that means 'full of lies', whereas of course what it really means...”
“Better the comfort of a lie than the absurdity of the truth.”
“I'm planning, you see, to try to confine myself to the truth. That's hard for an old, inveterate fantasy martyr and liar who has never hesitated to give truth the form he felt the occasion demanded. ”
“the worst thing about being lied to is knowing you weren't worth the truth.”
“The best lies are based on thetruth, at least in part”
“The words he said, too, must be human enough to bleed.”
“What is too absurd to be believed is believed because it is too absurd to be a lie.”
“It was amazing how it worked: the tiniest bit of truth made credible the greatest lies.”
“Young people," McDonald said contemptuously. "You always think there's something to find out.""Yes, sir," Andrews said."Well, there's nothing," McDonald said. "You get born, and you nurse on lies, ...”
“Perception was easily accomplished, required little effort, and it never had to stand the test of reality.”
“It is as if Little Red Riding Hood had asked the wolf: "Dear Grandmother, what is the truth for?" And the wolf had replied: "The truth helps me tell you better lies.”
“One swallows the lie that flatters, but sips the bitter truth drop by drop.”
“Truth is a risky proposition. It's the nature of mediocre human beings to believe that lies are necessary, that they serve a purpose, that truth is subversive, that candor is dangerous, that the ve...”
“Truth has to be credible or it makes as much trouble as any lie!”
