Quotes on Truth And Lies

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

Only the difference between truth and lies, courage and cowardice.

What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relations which have been poetically and rhetorically intensified, transferred, and embellished, and which, after long usage, seem to a people to be fixed, canonical, and binding. Truths are illusions which we have forgotten are illusions — they are metaphors that have become worn out and have been drained of sensuous force.

Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie.

When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.

If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.

A single lie destroys a whole reputation for integrity.

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

Those who don’t read the newspapers are better off than those who do insofar as those who know nothing are better off than those whose heads are filled with half-truths and lies.

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

When my love swears that she is made of truth, _x000D_ _x000D_ I do believe her, though I know she lies.

Always tell the truth. That way you don't have to remember what you said.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.