Quotes About Truth

Carlyle said, "A lie cannot live"; it shows he did not know how to tell them.

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.

George Washington as a boy was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth - he could not even lie.

Get your facts first and then you can distort them as much as you wish.

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. (Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.)

lying to them is bad! I am a real person!

The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.

Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction.

Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

Respect for the truth is an acquired taste.

Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor it is the sign that he wants all the truth.

The job of the poet is to render the world-to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do.

Unless I am very much mistaken...I AM very much mistaken...!

It's not a stereotype if it's always true.

If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.

If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.

To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.

You can put lipstick on a pig. It's still a pig.

Mr. Speaker. I said the honorable member was a liar it is true and I am sorry for it. The honorable member may place the punctuation where he pleases.

It's funny with fiction - once you cut something, it hasn't happened anymore.