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She seemed to be trying to take in what Kay had said to her: this bizarre, dangerous advice about telling the truth
— J.K. Rowling
When it comes to memoir, we want to catch the author in a lie. When we read fiction, we want to catch the author telling the truth.
— Tayari Jones
Sometimes lies are more dependable than the truth.
— Orson Scott Card
The deepest failures any fiction writer is likely to have are failures of not quite comprehending the truth of the story that he or she is telling.
— Richard Russo
Bill Clinton is a liar, a perverted kind of a guy anyway, and he is always stroking black folks rather than telling them the truth.
— Tucker Carlson
When the truth emerges, it can't be ignored. Nor will it wait.
— Barbara Delinsky
I think that by telling the truth and by attempting to be a good citizen, somehow I've ended up playing with fire. And that's really scary.
— Cecily McMillan
Still, I find lying to be more dangerous than expertly telling the truth, so I avoid it whenever possible.
— Drew Hayes
The sooner the jihadis go up to their imagined #heaven, the sooner our earth would be a heaven.
— Fakeer Ishavardas
Brandt would need to do something. Something drastic. Something like ... tell him the truth. Fucking hell, Brandt hated telling the truth.
— Abigail Roux
Every flower is telling you the secrets of life; to understand, you have to listen to them with your heart.
— Debasish Mridha
If there is a god, or hundreds of them, I hope they will forgive me for the harm I may have inflicted on you by telling you exactly what happened.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
When you find that people are not telling you the truth
look out! — Agatha Christie
look out! — Agatha Christie
Loving someone is helping them when they get in trouble, and looking after them, and telling them the truth ...
— Mark Haddon
It's hard not to tell the truth with a camera. Artists are particularly good at that.
— Edward Weston
My responsibility to myself, my neighbors, my family and the human family is to try to tell the truth.
— Toni Cade Bambara
Make a habit of telling the truth, or make a habit of lying: to decide each case on its own merits is exhausting, and hardly ever worth it.
— Mignon McLaughlin
WHATEVER YOU DO, TELL THE TRUTH.
— Grover Cleveland
I'm only telling you on the truth," he said. "If you can't stand the truth, don't ask for it.
— Colum McCann
A man's story is worth telling only if the truth he discovers is greater than the pain that led him to seek it.
— Alan Cohen
An enemy is anyone who tells the truth about you.
— Elbert Hubbard
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
— Galileo Galilei
The truth shouldn't be told only when it's convenient. Honesty must be a way of life.
— Frank Sonnenberg
Women have a hard enough time in this world: telling them the truth would be too cruel.
— H.L. Mencken
When you have the courage to tell the truth about what you're really afraid of, fear doesn't have control over your life.
— Ali Vincent
Repeat a lie a hundred times and it becomes an ideal.
— Ljupka Cvetanova
It just seemed like telling the truth would mean admitting some weakness
— Maureen Johnson
Don't spoil a good story by telling the truth.
— Isabella Stewart Gardner
The great thing about fiction is that you can start off by telling the truth, then start making stuff up like crazy whenever you feel like it.
— Megan McCafferty
While the truth is putting on its shoes, the lie becomes a champion of a long-distance running.
— Ljupka Cvetanova
Point is, people lie a lot. Sometimes out of habit. Not many people are good at telling the truth.
— Jonathan Maberry
Truth disappears with the telling of it.
— Lawrence Durrell
Poetry is an art of telling the poet's own truth my bending and twisting it with his or her own emotional bulldozer.
— Debasish Mridha
Just tell the truth and you're home free. If there are amends to be made, you make them. You own it and move on.
— Charlie Sheen
Half the truth is often a whole lie.
— Frank Sonnenberg
There is no truth except the truth that exists within you. Everything else is what someone is telling you.
— Neale Donald Walsch
Telling the truth is the funniest joke in the world.
— George Bernard Shaw
A 'penchant for telling the truth' can cripple a candidates chances faster than being caught in flagrante delicto with the governor's wife.
— Sydney J. Harris
Someone once noted that a 'gaffe' in Washington is when a politician accidentally tells the truth.
— Jonah Goldberg
I'm appealing to voters by actually telling the truth.
— Kesha Rogers
It's very nearly impossible to tell the truth in television.
— Malcolm Muggeridge
good writing is about telling the truth. We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep
— Anne Lamott
I pefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart.
— Shakira
Integrity is a bugger, it really is. Lying can get you into difficulties, but to really wind up in the crappers try telling nothing but the truth.
— David Mitchell
Actually being funny is mostly telling the truth about things.
— Bernard Sahlins
Theology is an attempt to explain a subject by men who do not understand it. The intent is not to tell the truth but to satisfy the questioner.
— Elbert Hubbard
The truth is like sunlight: It causes cancer.
— J. Richard Singleton
Repeat a lie a thousand times and it become a successful political campaign.
— Ljupka Cvetanova
I learned that telling the truth was a big part of loving yourself.
— Iyanla Vanzant
Tell the truth and not the facts.
— Maya Angelou
Please explain to me why John Kerry sounds more dickish telling the truth than Bush sounds when he's lying. How is that possible?
— Jon Stewart
Let's tell the truth. Mr. Reagan will raise taxes, and so will I. He won't tell you. I just did.
— Walter F. Mondale
Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.
— Howard Zinn
Once you reject fear, you will become the perfect candidate to receive and reflect Truth.
— Suzy Kassem
A liar is not believed even though he tell the truth.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
If the truth is worth telling, it is worth making a fool of yourself to tell it.
— Frederick Buechner
To be straight means to be loyal to the truth.
— Auliq Ice
I tell the truth through music. Other people tend to catch on and agree with my truth and it turns out we are all really similar.
— SZA
Outing is a nasty word for telling the truth.
— Armistead Maupin
Even through such simple acts as telling the truth, being kind, and encouraging others, we bring a smile to God's face.
— Rick Warren
It takes much longer to leave the psychic place than the physical place. (p.120)
— Jeanette Winterson
When the good pictures come, we hope they tell truths, but truths 'told slant,' just as Emily Dickinson commanded.
— Sally Mann
People think that a person is scared when he's lying. But the fact is, he is even more scared when he's telling the truth.
— Raj Singh
Proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear.
— Catherine Of Siena
One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God.
— Ramakrishna
This is the problem,' she says.
'With us?'
'With everything. No one's saying what they want. — Cath Crowley
'With us?'
'With everything. No one's saying what they want. — Cath Crowley
I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them
— Adlai E. Stevenson II
No one believes a liar. Even when she's telling the truth.
— Sara Shepard
Tell the truth or trump-but get the trick.
— Mark Twain
Ugly truths are the biggest source of indigestion in humans.
— Raheel Farooq
As a journalist I'm asked whether I make things up. As a novelist I'm accused of telling the truth.
— Lennox Morrison
The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.
— Malcolm Bradbury
Be careful, Hally."
"Of what? The truth? I seem to be the only one around here who is prepared to face it. — Athol Fugard
"Of what? The truth? I seem to be the only one around here who is prepared to face it. — Athol Fugard
The blues aren't pessimistic. We're prisoners of hope but we tell the truth and the truth is dark.
— Cornel West
To tell you the truth. I am a wild and passionate novelist. I am therefore easily given over to telling wild and passionate lies.
— Val Edward Simone
I consider telling him the truth. That if I were dead like Snow White and he kissed me like that, surely my heart would kick back to life
— Colleen Hoover
The French are simply incapable of telling the truth.
— Jerry Della Femina
Poorly chosen objects are distractions, obstacles we put in the way when we're afraid of telling the truth.
— Lauren Graham
Whatever we had is over. It died the minute I walked downstairs and realized the world I'd always known was a lie.- Blaire Wynn
— Abbi Glines
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 tell the truth: your enemy is also your friend-his presence makes your life fuller and richer.
— Muhammad Iqbal
Myths are lies that tell the truth.
— Phil Cousineau
There is a perfect marriage. Any marriage counselor can tell you that.
— Ljupka Cvetanova
Fear is a place where you just tell the truth
— Clive Barker
So much relies on one person assuming the other is telling the truth. If a person can lie to you about one thing, he can lie about something else.
— Meg Rosoff
The heart of justice is truth telling, seeing ourselves and the world the way it is rather than the way we want to be.
— Bell Hooks
The young are not afraid of telling the truth.
— Anne Frank
You can't be reluctant to give up your lie and still tell the truth.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
There are two ways of lying. One, not telling the truth and the other, making up statistics.
— Josefina Vazquez Mota
We have the right to our labor but not to the fruit of our labor.
— Steven Pressfield