Telling The Truth Quotes

Everything can be forgiven in this world, save telling the truth.

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.

Telling the truth without sensitivity can be a form of abuse.

I am trying to work out what my taste is, comedy-wise. I look up to stand up comedians who appear to be telling the truth, but I don't mind if they are lying.

Point is, people lie a lot. Sometimes out of habit. Not many people are good at telling the truth.

Contrary to all those times you've heard a writer confess at a reading that he writes fiction because he is a pathological liar, fiction writing is all about telling the truth.

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.

I try to take everyone's head off, to tell the truth.

If there is no God, why bother to tell the truth? Why not steal?

Express a mean opinion of yourself occasionally; it will show your friends that you know how to tell the truth.

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

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.

To tell the truth is an act of love. To withhold the truth is an act of hate. Or worse, apathy.

a writer must always tell the truth (unless he's a journalist)

It's very nearly impossible to tell the truth in television.

Lots of old slaves closes the door before they tell the truth about their days of slavery.

Truth-telling frightens me. Lying confuses me.

Myths are lies that tell the truth.

What is it with you people? You think not getting caught in a lie is the same thing as telling the truth?

We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.

No one individual can tell the truth.

There's nothing more oily and cynical in politics than telling the truth.

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

I tell the truth, and truth is the ultimate defense against libel.

Don't work. Avoid telling the truth. Be hated. Love someone. You're going to have a busy life. Thank goodness there's no life expectancy.

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

When you have the courage to tell the truth about what you're really afraid of, fear doesn't have control over your life.

Since then I've always thought that under rape in the dictionary it should tell the truth. It is not just forcible intercourse; rape means to inhabit and destroy everything.

I leave a lot out when I tell the truth

No one tells the truth to people they don't actually know, and if they do it is a horrible trait. Everyone wants something smaller, something neater than the truth.

He who tells the truth says almost nothing.

I think it's my job to tell the truth.

The existence of the writer is to write, and to write is to tell the truth.

All you have to do to be a camera actor is tell the truth.

The best liars are those who tell the truth most of the time.

I prefer you like this, when you're in a foul mood, because you tell the truth.

The law of England is a very strange one; it cannot compel anyone to tell the truth. . . . But what the law can do is to give you seven years for not telling the truth.

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.

Fear is a place where you just tell the truth

A writer is first and foremost a witness of her time. She must tell the truth, not take a political position. But then the truth that she discovers is profoundly political.

Andrew Calhoun tells the truth. To my knowledge, there is no better songwriter alive.

It is much harder to lie to someone's face. But. It is also much harder to tell the truth to someone's face.

How much more money do we have to waste, how many more families have to be destroyed, how many more people have to be killed before you summon the courage to tell the truth to the American people?

fiction is the great lie that tells the truth

The whole Melrose series is an attempt to tell the truth, and is based on the idea that there is some salutary or liberating power in telling the truth.

It's hard not to tell the truth with a camera. Artists are particularly good at that.

When you're dealing with your life, my God, you gotta tell the truth.

If you tell the truth all day long, you will end up in jail.

It's very disconcerting to start out and to say, "I'm going to tell the truth," and then to realize it's that much trouble.

Always tell the truth and be true.