Telling The Truth Quotes - Page 7

You can't be both a writer and a politician, at least not a good writer. A writer must always tell the truth as he sees it. And the politician must never give the game away.

Telling the truth is the funniest joke in the world.

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

When a middle-aged man says in a moment of weariness that he is half dead, he is telling the literal truth.

An enemy is anyone who tells the truth about you.

Well, you know what they say. A bullet always tells the truth.

Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it?

I aim to tell the truth about any subject, not a romance or fantasy, not avoid the truth.

I do not have much liking for the too famous existential philosophy, and, to tell the truth, I think its conclusions false.

Tell the truth once and for all and shut up forever.

If you have value as an artist it's probably going to be in your capacity to let things inside you get past things that are placed there to keep you from telling the truth. The more you see things as clearly and coldly as you can, the more value you're going to have.

I know I fib a good deal. After all, a woman's charm is fifty per cent illusion, but when a thing is important I tell the truth. - Blanche Scene II

I don't value authority. I don't value the systems. I don't value patriarchal religion. I don't value the things that diminish you when you do tell the truth. So I'm not scared of the end result, and that is the biggest asset I have.

A lot of times in sport if you try to tell the truth it seems like an excuse.

To tell the truth, I never think about a homer. I'm just thinking of the situation and what I've got to do when I go to the plate.

When the good pictures come, we hope they tell truths, but truths 'told slant,' just as Emily Dickinson commanded.

Telling the truth is like exposing the underside of our wings. We only see that part when we fly.

it's always best to tell the truth.

Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.

No. It's actually not okay. And I hate when people say that, when they say it's okay even though it's not. It's better to tell the truth.

I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please.

With all the justifications I have had in place, telling the truth under certain circumstances was in my universe no different than telling a lie or withholding.

Tell the truth and not the facts.

telling the truth about children's lives is radical.

My assignment is what every writer's assignment is: tell the truth of his own time.