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Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well. — Samuel Butler

Humans will always tell you the story. Dogs can only tell you the truth. Trust your instincts and listen your dog. — Cesar Millan

The most outrageous tale you can tell is somebody's truth. — Marty Rubin

No one individual can tell the truth. — William Faulkner

Poets can tell the truth as they see it. It's the author's story, the author's voice. — Nikki Giovanni

You can't lie a lifetime,son. Either you gon' tell the truth, or the truth's gon' tell on you — Daniel Black

As long as I tell the truth I feel that nobody can touch me. — Henry Rollins

You needn't think there is nothing you can do-you can tell the truth. — Daniel Ellsberg

God walks 'round in muddy boots, sometimes rags and that's the truth. You can't always tell but sometimes you just know. " From Geodes — Carrie Newcomer

I didn't tell him. And I never told her the whole truth. What would it matter? There was nothing she could do; nothing anyone can do or will do. — Julie Anne Peters

People can tell the truth much more freely when they're apparently lying. — Eric Idle

I don't tell the truth any more to those who can't make use of it. I tell it mostly to myself, because it always changes me. — Anais Nin

I'm not afraid of the real truth. There is nothing you can tell me about yourself that is going to make me clutch my pearls. — Gabrielle Hamilton

At the end of the day, what I show is real life. I tell the truth. And the truth can be shocking. — Larry Clark

Try to live so that you can always tell the truth. — Jonathan Safran Foer

You can be socially accepted and tell the truth about what it is to be a woman. — Caitlin Moran

Don't assume, ask. Be kind. Tell the truth. Don't say anything you can't stand behind fully. Have integrity. Tell people how you feel. — Warsan Shire

Everyone wants one person in the world to whom they can tell the truth and from whom they will hear the truth. Become that person. — Susan Scott

It amused me to think that one can tell the truth when one is drunk and nobody will believe it. — Francoise Sagan

When you can't tell the truth, tell *a* truth. — Greg Cox

You can say or write anything about me you like. Just don't, for any reason, ever tell the truth. — Katharine Hepburn

They say that in space no-one can hear you scream. The truth is even more disturbing. In space, no-one can tell that you aren't American. — Andrew Knighton

The truth, finally, is who can tell it. — Chang-rae Lee

Guns tell the truth. Guns never say, "I'm only kidding." War is ugly because the truth can be ugly and war is very sincere. — Gustav Hasford

Maybe if we tell the truth about the past, we can tell the truth about the present. — Ken Loach

Probably what my comment meant was that I don't care about the circumstances if I can tell the truth. — Sally Kirkland

Never tell a lie when you can tell the truth. — Stephen King

When one lives in a society where people can no longer rely on the institutions to tell them the truth, the truth must come from culture and art. — John Trudell

At the very least you should tell yourself the truth. If you can't trust yourself, who can you trust? — Sarah Dessen

That guy in the corner. Never tells the truth, as a matter of principle. Why answer a question, he says, if you can tell a good story instead? — Pete McCarthy

It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth. — Gao Xingjian

What matters is whether we want to lie or to tell the truth and write the truth, even though it never can be the truth and never is the truth. — Thomas Bernhard

The best thing I can do is tell you the truth, or at least, what I think is the truth. — Victoria Aveyard

Craziness is what happens when there is no one left to whom you can tell the truth. You are left with all of it, alone. — Ann Wadsworth

The only way to tell the truth is to speak with kindness. Only the words of a loving man can be heard — Henry David Thoreau

Why do I act as I do? To tell you the truth, I have absolutely no idea why. It is simply my nature to act as I act, and that's all I can say. — Raymond Smullyan

But if you can't tell the truth to the people you care about the most, eventually you stop being able to tell the truth to yourself. Luke Garroway — Cassandra Clare

I had to get away from him. Sometimes we reject the people who tell the truth and it is not because they are wrong. It is because we can't — Rachel Joyce

There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and to shame the devil. — Walter Lippmann

A lie can only make a temporary sense. The truth is permanent and lasts forever. — Michael Bassey Johnson

Love people enough to tell them the truth and respect them enough to trust that they can handle it. — Iyanla Vanzant

To tell you the honest-to-God truth: without Scientology, I would be dead. So, I can personally highly recommend it. — Kirstie Alley

Tell me anyway
Maybe I can find the truth by comparing the lies. — Leon Trotsky

There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself, an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly. — Antisthenes Pinto

How can faceless bureaucrats in an intelligence agency deny brave soldiers a chance to tell the truth? — Curt Weldon

To tell you the truth, it's a complex piece, so I can't really answer your question at present. — Paul Darrow

People can only tell the truth as they see it. — Edna Robinson

Everyone thinks I'm crazy, you know, because I can't tell them the truth; which is, that I'm driven crazy by all these thoughts, all these heads. — Charlaine Harris

When we've decided to tell the truth in a story, we should tell good, strong versions of it, proper versions that kids can do something with. — Celine Kiernan

[On Richard M. Nixon:] Americans began with a president who couldn't tell a lie and now they have one who can't tell the truth. — Benazir Bhutto

There is a perfect marriage. Any marriage counselor can tell you that. — Ljupka Cvetanova

All I can hope to teach my son is to tell the truth and fear no man. — Edward R. Murrow

I love that I can tell the truth and have people laugh at it. — Kevin Hart

I want to use my gifts to tell the truth, and to tell it as beautifully as I can. — Andrew Peterson

The moral of the story was that if you can talk, it's better not to tell the truth. — Louis De Bernieres

You can always tell the heart of man by what he do, and by what he don't do ... — Steven J. Carroll

They tell so many lies, they can't keep them straight, and then they get caught. The truth is easy to remember, so don't forget that. — Kate O'Reilly

Sometimes a bus is your bus, and sometimes it ain't, and it's important that you can tell the difference. — Steven J. Carroll

Sometimes you will hate me because I will tell you the truth about your game. And the truth can hurt/humble you — Doc Rivers

The problem a guy who lies all the time faces is he never can tell when anybody else is telling the truth. — Deacon Jones

I don't want to lie. I can't tell the truth. So it's over. — Patrick Marber

How can I discover truth I thought and that thought led me nowhere. No one would tell me the truth. — Jean Rhys

Sometimes I wonder," I said, "if people who are going to tell the truth shouldn't make sure first that they can defend themselves. — Saul Bellow

It always feels good to tell you the truth. If I can't share it with you, it feels like it didn't happen. — Ione Skye

And I'll ask you a question, You can tell me the truth. Are you thinking of me when I'm fighting for you? — Brittainy C. Cherry

You can't be reluctant to give up your lie and still tell the truth. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

A story can sing the truth and not just tell it. — Robert Barron

There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying. — Josh Billings

Instead of what a betrayal it is to be lied to, how rare and wonderful it is when two human beings can tell each other the truth. — Huntley Fitzpatrick

You can read everybody. It's not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it's false. — Charles Olson

She can speak three languages, but she can tell the truth in none of them. — Philippa Gregory

I am surrounded by flatterers and fools. It can drive a man to madness,.. Half of them don't dare tell me the truth, and the other half can't find it. — George R R Martin

When all else fails fall back on the truth.
No I'm a politician I can't tell the truth

Mara Cal Omas — Walter Jon Williams

The cruelest thing you can do to an artist is tell them their work is flawless when it isn't — Yahtzee Croshaw

I am my own judge of what truths I shall tell. The truth can do just as much harm as a lie. — Thornton Wilder

We're in a place where no words can tell the truth about what happened ... But they have to. This was hell on earth. — Aleksander Kwasniewski

You can no more make someone tell the truth than you can force someone to love you. — Philip Roth

I think poets tell better history than historians. Historians lie all the time but the poets can get to truth of it. — John Cusack

Whenever you can call your enemy and tell him that you truly love him with compassion, then you are practicing the power of true love. — Debasish Mridha

The best advice you can give others is to always tell the truth. — Ramona Matta

But I suppose the most revolutionary act one can engage in is ... to tell the truth. — Howard Zinn

It's safer to use fiction, which will not be taken for literal truth, but which, like Jesus' stories, can tell the truth indirectly yetpowerfully. — Wayne Martindale

Lie detectors don't work on someone who can't tell the difference between truth and lies. — Joakim Zander

Keep it simple. Tell the truth. People can smell the truth. — Steve Wynn

We can lie in the language of dress or try to tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to be silent. — Alison Lurie

It was a lie of convenience. The truth takes about ten minutes to tell, most people can't sit still that long — Robert Kearney

You should tell the truth as often as you can, but in such a way as people don't believe you or think that you're being funny. — Auberon Waugh

i never told the truth so i can never tell a lie... — Tom Waits

Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
W. Somerset Maugham — W. Somerset Maugham

Always tell as much truth as you can when you're lying," he said. "Nothing deceives like the truth." The — K.J. Parker

Everything was too sharp and clear, so that I could never tell where to start- the way a map that shows too much can sometimes be useless. — Haruki Murakami

I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels. — A. N. Wilson