Telling The Truth Quotes
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The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.
Malcolm Bradbury
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There is no such thing as bragging. You're either lying or telling the truth.
Curt Flood
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So you know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna do something really outrageous, I'm gonna tell the truth.
John Travolta
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Tell the truth... maybe just to see clearly, as clearly as possible.
Lucille Clifton
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The Four Rules of Life: 1. Show Up 2. Pay Attention 3.Tell the Truth 4. Don't be upset at the results.
Bill Vaughan
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I don't want to lie. I can't tell the truth. So it's over.
Patrick Marber
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I try to take everyone's head off, to tell the truth.
Aaron James "A. J." Hawk
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For two extraordinary years I have been working on it - learning to write - but mostly learning how to tell the truth. At first it is quite impossible. You make yourself better than anybody, then worse than anybody, and when you finally come to see you are "like" everybody - that is the bitterest blow of all to the ego. But in the end it is only the truth, no matter how ugly or shameful, that is right, that fits together, that makes real people, and strangely enough - beauty.
Louise Brooks
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Telling the truth is like exposing the underside of our wings. We only see that part when we fly.
Sabrina Ward Harrison
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On the one hand, we may tell the truth, regardless of consequences, and on the other hand we may mellow it and sophisticate it to make it humane and tolerable.
H. L. Mencken
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It's much better to have your arguments dismissed because you might be joking than to have your arguments dismissed because you're not telling the truth.
P. J. O'Rourke
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We take refuge in pride, because we are afraid to tell the truth to ourselves.
Okakura Kakuzo
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A writer's job is to tell the truth.
Andy Rooney
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Overcoming my dad telling me that I could never amount to anything is what has made me the megalomaniac that you see today.
Bono U2