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Quotes About Veracity

And you were truthful. No. You weren't truthful? I was accurate.
~ Richard Flanagan
Is there anything more plausible than a second hand?
~ Julian Barnes
It was a fairy tale, Hovick style, in which drama trumped veracity and the women always won. On
~ Karen Abbott
One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly on them.
~ Katharine Fullerton Gerould
The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie.
~ Hilaire Belloc
Your word is your bond.
~ Melvyn Douglas
Veritas, it's called. Don't you love it when
~ William Lashner
Mere reason is insufficient to convince us of its veracity (the church's ) : and whoever is moved by faith to assent to it, is conscious of a continued miracle in his own person , which subverts all the principles of his understanding and gives him a determination of believe what is most contrary to custom and experience.
~ David Hume
She spoke the truth or said nothing at all,
~ David Lagercrantz
Everything on the internet is real god damn it!
~ Bill Gates
It takes good memory to keep up a lie
~ Pierre Corneille
I'm not very good at lying.
~ Ruth Wilson
Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Anything is better than lies and deceit!
~ Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
There is no greater virtue than honesty.
~ Martin Sheen
He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake the trade of lying.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Always tell the truth; then you don't have to remember anything
~ Mark Twain
If ever I said in grief or pride, I'd tired of honest things, I lied.
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
Person-to-person, most people are honest.
~ Andy Rooney
Truth is such a rare thing it is delightful to tell it,
~ Emily Dickinson
A newspaper, not having to act on its descriptions and reports, but only to sell them to idly curious people, has nothing but honor to lose by inaccuracy and non-veracity.
~ George Bernard Shaw
If you tell a true story, you can't be wrong.
~ Jack Kerouac
It is my belief... that the truth is generally preferable to lies.
~ J. K. Rowling
it is not enough to speak, but to speak truee
~ William Shakespeare