Telling The Truth Quotes

Always tell the truth or the truth will tell on you.

One can lie with the mouth, but with the accompanying grimace one nevertheless tells the truth.

It's easier to tell a lie, than to tell the truth. It's easier to kill a fly, than it is to turn it loose.

I'm not a great collaborator, to tell the truth.

There is a case for telling the truth; there is a case for avoiding the scandal; but there is no possible defense for the man who tells the scandal, but does not tell the truth

Telling the truth is a beautiful act even if the truth itself is ugly.

Normally I tell the truth whether it's nice or not.

You must have plenty of sea-room to tell the truth in.

... when caught unawares I usually tell the truth, and what's duller than that?

Seek the truth. Tell the truth. Live in truth.

Tell the truth about who you are, what you feel, what you want, what you're up to. Tell the truth about that first to yourself and then to anybody else that'll listen.

The only thing I can do is tell the truth as I see it and let the chips fall where they may.

People are more interested in someone who goes on stage and tells the truth.

I personally feel the most vulnerable when I write. That's where I learned to tell the truth when I was young.

If you hate something, you hate it, and if you like something or somebody, you like it, but tell the truth. And most celebrities have that thin veneer that they will not break for you.

As an actor, your main goal is to tell the truth.

Telling the truth is absolutely important.

Try to live so that you can always tell the truth.

When you tell the truth, people listen.

Telling a lie is called wrong. Telling the truth is called right. Except when telling the truth is called bad manners and telling a lie is called polite.

Songwriters tell the truth.

I always tell the truth, Stella replies. Although I sometimes confuse the facts.

Don't be afraid to tell the truth. It's better to hurt someone by truth than to make them happy by lies.

My function as a writer is not story-telling but truth-telling: to make things plain.

That's what you get for telling the truth. Someone calls you a liar. Most people will accept a likely lie to an unlikely truth. In fact, they prefer it.

Is it possible to tell the truth in a society of lies? Or must you always, of necessity, become a liar?

It is very difficult to tell the truth.

One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

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

I think Assange has been very courageous. I've also defended Bradley Manning. I think they've been tremendously courageous in telling the truth, and the public has the right to the truth.

People who are most interested in telling the truth about others are generally the least interested in having the truth told about themselves.

I don't mind what the opposition say of me so long as they don't tell the truth about me. But when they descend to telling the truth about me I consider that this is taking an unfair advantage.

The truth will lead me to all.

Let me tell so much truth. I want to tell the truth in my work. The truth will lead me to all.

The definition of a gaffe is when a politician tells the truth.

Tell the truth as soon as you know it.

In society, one doesn't tell the truth, one tells the exact opposite.

Somebody ought to have the courage to tell the truth. These people are terrorists.

Truth-telling by a leader can legitimate truth-telling at every level.

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

I stayed in Hamburg a few more days, and during that time I received a visit from Rolf Aldag, the sporting director at T-Mobile. He advised me to tell the truth.

Comedy is not supposed to be funny. Its supposed to tell the truth and then that's funny.

Artists are sometimes in a position to tell the truth, but they're positioned as a Cassandra. They're gifted with impeccable prophecy and the assurance of never being listened to.

I always tell the truth about what I’m selling, and then nobody buys it.

If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.

Why did adults have to be so thick? They always say “tell the truth,” and when you do, they don’t believe you. What’s the point?

I think what makes us human is those choices - whether to tell the truth or not.

Do you want to tell the truth, or do you want to tell a story?

When you get people standing up saying, 'I'm going to just tell the truth; what do we have to fear?,' it encourages others, and it creates a counterresponse.

You can be prosecuted if you tell the truth about Islam.