Quotes About Veracity

Art is a habit-forming drug. Art has absolutely no existence as veracity, as truth. People always speak of it with this great, religious reverence, but why should it be so revered?

I told the truth, and I did it on national TV in a lie-detector test.

If you want truth, you should begin by giving it.

She did not answer, for truth she could not, and falsehood she would not, give him.

In a question of veracity between U.S. Grant and Andrew Johnson, between a soldier whose honor is as untarnished as the sun, and a President who has betrayed every friend, and broken every promise, the country will not hesitate," wrote the New York Tribune.

The tendency to lie is one thing; lying is another.

The circumstances I am about to relate to you have truth to recommend them.

A good liar lies as little as possible.

One of my biggest problems in life has been my inability to lie.

If ever I said, in grief or pride,I tired of honest things, I lied.

If you add to the truth, you subtract from it.

Out here, we carry no paper for contracts. We make no evening promises to be broken at dawn. When a man says a thing, that's the contract.

One tells as few lies as possible only by telling as few lies as possible and not by having the least possible opportunity to do so.

It is about time that we discard all bunkum--

Didn't lie give you

If the past is to be called upon to legitimize the present, as it so frequently is, then the veracity of such a past has to be continuously vetted.

Dedicated to truth.

While it is good to speak well, it is better to speak the truth.

Everything I ever said to you was true and is true.

In places where scholars can still be stoned to death for doubting the veracity of the Koran, Gould's notion of a loving concordat between faith and reason would be perfectly delusional.

Truth is truth, my dear!

I don't lie. You don't lie, I repeated. That's what I said. Ever. Nope. Sure you don't, I thought.

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

Never lie under any circumstances.