Quotes About Truth

Looking for an entirely reliable informant is like looking for a chaste mistress.

I tell so many lies, sweetheart," he said. "which one specifically?

We're meant to protect each other, but not from everything. Not from the truth. That's what it means to love someone but let them be themselves. -Jace Wayland

It would hardly benefit me to hold anything back unnecessarily, when I know what I'm asking. For you to find a needle in--God, not even a haystack. A needle in a tower full of other needles.

Sometimes carrying the burden of an upsetting truth, and hiding it, is actually a gift you give to someone else. You bear that burden, so they don't have to, in a situation where telling them will change nothing.

Julian spoke through his teeth. "Malcolm, this is not a love story." "Every story is a love story.

There's more to honesty than … than an arrangement of words. They say faeries can't lie, but you lie in your intentions, your attitude, your demeanor —

Forsooth, I no longer toil in vain, To prove that demon pox warps the brain. So though 'ti pity, it's not in vain That the pox-ridden worm was slain: For to believe in me, you all must deign.

It is always better to live the truth than to live a lie. And that lie would have kept him alone forever. He may have had nearly nothing for 5 years, but now he can have everything. A boy who looks like that... Magnus.

Jace," she said. "Why are you doing this to me?" "Because you're lying to me. And you're lying to yourself." Jace's eyes were blazing, and even though his hands were stuffed into his pockets, she could see that they were knotted into fists.

Goddamn it," Jace shouted over the noise. "I hate it when Simon is right.

Oh, what is brighter than the light? What is darker than the night? What is keener than an axe? What is softer than melting wax? Truth is brighter than the light, Falsehood darker than the night. Revenge is keener than an axe, And love is softer than melting wax.

I need some beef and broccoli before I face any more Mr. Darcy. It's a truth universally acknowledged that if you watch too much television on am empty stomach, your head falls off." "If your head fall off, " Tessa said, "the hairdressing industry would go into an economic meltdown

Beauty is harsh.

Sophie said to me once that she was glad she had been scarred. She said that whoever loved her now would love her true self, and not her pretty face. This is your true self, Tessa. This power is who you are. Whoever loves you now--and you must also love yourself--will love the truth of you.

When to people tell the same lie..." "They are working together," Will finished

I prefer to think that I'm liar in a way that's uniquely my own." (Jace)

The best lies are based on the truth, at least in part

If you never tell anyone the truth about yourself, eventually you start to forget.

When you told me the first time that Valentine was your father, I didn't believe it. Not just because I didn't want it to be true, but because you weren't anything like him. I've never thought you're anything like him. But you are. You are.

Now before we do any digging around in that blond head of yours to find out the truth, I suggest you cool your temper. And I know just where you can do that best." Jace blinked. "Are you sending me to my room?

Or perhaps this hostility of yours is the pretense. Love does make liars out of your kind.

I thought of love as a game. It is not a game. It is more serious than death.

But if you can't tell the truth to the people you care about the most, eventually you stop being able to tell the truth to yourself.