Quotes About Veracity

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i never told the truth so i can never tell a lie...

a lie stands on one foot but the truth stands on 2.

Now listen, Jack, will you? I am somewhat given to lying: my occasions require it from time to time. But I do not choose to have any man alive tell me of it.

Art has absolutely no existence as veracity, as truth.

Prior to Y.P.W.c.'s Freedom of Speculation Act, credible sociohistorical data on the origins and evolution of Les Assassins des Fauteuils Rollents from obscure, adolescent, nihilistic Root Cult to one of the most feared cells in the annals of Canadian extremism was regrettably patchy and dependent on the hearsay of sources whose scholarly veracity was of an integrity somewhat less than unimpeachable.

Hal, if I tell thee a lie, spit in my face, call me horse.

it is not enough to speak, but to speak true

It is all true, or it ought to be; and more and better besides.

Perhaps we have been guilty of some terminological inexactitudes.

Veracity in what you do will define your bravery and strength. Ensuring that your bravery will lead you to success and not downfall.

There is no hypocrisy in truthfulness.

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

The first casualty when war comes, is truth

when you're lying, it's best to stick as close to the truth as you can.

Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.

The president has undermined trust. No longer will the members of Congress be entitled to accept his veracity. Caveat emptor has become the word. Every member of Congress is on his or her own to determine the truth.

The American obsession with 'Downton' amuses me slightly because it's such a fiction. I've always been questioned about my historical veracity, and 'Downton' just flies past, when it's completely made up.

Although my mom and I had often disagreed politically and personally, she'd led our family by example, instilling in us a can-do attitude that often defied reason - an optimism many would call foolish, ignorant, and naive, but an optimism that occasionally shocked our neighbors and our world with its brazen veracity.

It gives me confidence to know that what I'm writing has a veracity of its own without me having to invent it. When I'm writing fiction, I must believe it to be true, or I can see no point in it.

I feel like I've been very blessed in the sense that I've had the veracity of spirit to not be stopped and, at the same time, the protective energy and the generosity of those who have come before me, who saw something inside of me and, therefore, invited me into rooms that I would not have been inside of otherwise.

Lo mejor es decir siempre la verdad, a no ser que seas un estupendo mentiroso.

I haven't exaggerated anything, I've stuck to the facts.

We shall seek first to tell the truth rather than to study the subtle art of adjusting it to the circumstances of time and person.