Quotes About Truth

Conversations are always dangerous, if you have something to hide.

That's the secret of existence. We're all a little mad.

When will a woman lie? Sometimes for herself. Usually for the man she loves. Always for her children.

Fortunately words, ingeniously used, will serve to mask the ugliness of naked facts.

No innocent person ever has an alibi.

The truth is people are an extraordinary mixture of heroism and cowardice.

If I were at any time to set out on a career of deceit, it would be of Miss Marple that I should be afraid.

What you do not understand is that there are things that cannot be bought.

I am all that there is of the most real.

There are more important things than finding the murderer. And justice is a fine word, but it is sometimes difficult to say exactly what one means by it. In my opinion, the important thing is to clear the innocent. - Hercule Poirot

This is no time for refusing to look facts in the face.

fiction is founded on truth... unless things did happen, people couldn't think of them.

In conversation, points arise! If a human being converses much, it is impossible for him to avoid the truth! (Hercule Poirot)

That's the curious part about speaking the truth. No one does believe it.

the truth is never horrible, only interesting.

The impossible cannot have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.

Do you believe in the value of truth, my dear, or don't you?" "Of course I believe in the truth," said Rhoda, staring. "Yes, you say that, but perhaps you haven't thought about it. The truth hurts sometimes – and destroys one's illusions." "I'd rather have it all the same." said Rhoda. "So would I. But I don't know that we're wise.

When the fact doesn't meet the theory then let go the theory.

You want beauty," said Hercule Poirot. "Beauty at any price. For me, it is truth I want. Always truth.

You tell your lies and you think nobody knows. But there are two people who know. Yes- two people. One is le bon Dieu - and the other is Hercule Poirot

My remarks are, as always, apt, sound, and to the point. (Hercule Poirot)

No one human being knows the full truth about another human being. Not even one's nearest and dearest.

There's a convention that one doesn't speak ill of the dead. That's stupid, I think. The truth's always the truth. On the whole it's better to keep your mouth shut about living people. You might conceivably injure them. The dead are past that. But the harm they've done lives after them sometimes.

They say all the world loves a lover—apply that saying to murder and you have an even more infallible truth.