Quotes About Truth

Patrick Ness, A MONSTER CALLS

He must have known, or at least suspected, that she was herself a member of the IRA, but they would argue, amiably, about politics as if they were a couple of graduate students, rather than adversaries in a bloody guerrilla war. At one point, Corden-Lloyd told her that he would love to come back and see her in ten years' time, 'and we could all tell each other the whole truth.

The term "broad spectrum" sounds clinical, but the truth is, it was coined by advertisers: it first entered the medical literature with Arthur's campaign for Terramycin.

by the time Marietta learned that Arthur Sackler, the man she had been seeing, already had a wife and two children, Arthur treated it as a mere detail, a minor technicality that should not slow the two of them down.

Whatever White might say about the law getting to "the essence" of things, when your client is in the hot seat in a deposition, the whole point is to avoid the essence.

You have to be a bit of a liar to tell a story the right way.

The best lies about me are the ones I told.

Knowing your own ignorance is the first step to enlightenment.

All the truth in the world is held in stories.

That is how heavy a secret can become. It can make blood flow easier than ink.

I'd heard you were dead." "I heard you wear a red lace corset," I said matter-of-factly. "But I don't believe every bit of nonsense that gets rumored about.

it is better to have a mouthful of poison than a secret of the heart.

Do not mistake me for my mask. You see light dappling on the water and forget the deep, cold dark beneath.

Call a jack a jack. Call a spade a spade. But always call a whore a lady.

But no. There is a difference between the truth and what we wish were true.

Too much honesty makes you sound insincere.

I believe it, Chronicler found himself thinking. Before it was just a story, but now I can believe it. This is the face of a man who has killed an angel.

I don't mind being called a liar. I am. I am a marvelous liar. But I hate being called a liar when I´m telling the perfect truth.

Some things simply were too true to stay. Some merely came to visit for a while.

nothing in the world is harder than convincing someone of an unfamiliar truth.

Clean, quick, and easy as lying. We know how it ends practically before it starts. That's why stories appeal to us. They give is the clarity and simplicity our real lives lack.

All explicit knowledge is translated knowledge, and all translation is imperfect.

Truth is a troublesome motherfucker unless it's handled properly

Wilem tapped Simmon's shoulder."He's telling the truth." Simmon glanced over at him."Why would you say that?" "He sounds more sincere then that when he lies.