Telling The Truth Quotes - Page 5

It requires as much to tell the truth as to conceal it.

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

A comedian is someone who tells the truth. Truth is the set of all jokes told by all comedians in the world.

Poets can tell the truth as they see it. It’s the author’s story, the author’s voice.

None but the dead are permitted to tell the truth.

I wanted readers to be genuinely unsure as to whether she's telling the truth or lying. It meant making her partly sympathetic, and partly unsympathetic, which wasn't easy.

Everyone has the right to tell the truth about her own life.

I can only answer that I tried to tell the truth and, if not be objective, at least be fair; history is not served when reporters prize trepidation and propriety over the robust journalistic duty to tell the whole story.

When one of us tells the truth, he makes it easier for all of us to open our hearts to our pain and that of others.

Men are sometimes hanged for telling the truth.

When there is breakdown in a relationship, you must have the hard conversation. It may not be pretty and it may not feel good. But if you are willing to listen and tell the truth, it will open up.

Any artist who has that quality of timelessness has that quality because they tell the truth.

I can't say why people lie; they just do. Everyone has their own reasons for not telling the truth.

It's a lot easier to tell the truth usually.

All we can do is go around telling the truth.

Playing guitar is like telling the truth.

When a poem doesn't work, the first question to ask yourself is, 'Am I telling the truth?'

Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.

Even someone as lowly as an assistant U.S. attorney has to undergo a background check, and you're asked a series of very invasive questions, and you're expected to tell the truth and they're under penalty of perjury. And you're asked those questions so you can't be blackmailed or extorted.

In nonfiction, you have that limitation, that constraint, of telling the truth.

Reality is bad enough. Why should I tell the truth?

Oral history is a recipe for complete misrepresentation because almost no one tells the truth, even when they intend to.

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.

What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.