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Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
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For every good reason there is to lie,
there is a better reason to tell the truth.
- Bo Bennett
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
- Mark Twain
Tell the truth.
Sing with passion.
Work with laughter.
Love with heart.
'Cause that's all that matters in the end.
- Kris Kristofferson
It's essential to tell the truth at all times.
This will reduce life's pain.
Lying distorts reality.
All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.
- John Bradshaw
Only good comes from being honest and true.
Only harm and suffering cone from falsehood.
It doesn't always feel as if good comes from truth and honesty,
but, in the long run, it does.
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We take refuge in pride,
because we are afraid to tell the truth to ourselves.
- Kakuzo Okakura
A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth,
to say no.
That's where toughness comes into play.
Toughness is not being a bully.
It's having backbone.
- Robert Kiyosaki
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie.
I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave.
And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
- H.L. Mencken
We tell the real truth of our life
by the stories we repeatedly tell.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.
- Stephanie Klein
If you're going to tell people the truth,
be funny or they'll kill you.
- Billy Wilder
What a word is truth.
Slippery, tricky, unreliable.
I tried in these books to tell the truth.
- Lillian Hellman
Tell the truth so as to puzzle and confound your adversaries.
- Henry Wotton
I think we have erred on the side of being too conservative so far,
to tell you the truth.
- Roone Arledge
A Lawyer will do anything to win a case,
sometimes he will even tell the truth.
- Patrick Murray
To tell the truth is revolutionary.
- Antonio Gramsci
You must have love as the core; it takes courage to
be willing to constantly tell the truth to each other
and risk letting the relationship go.
- Kenny Loggins
Surely the job of fiction is to actually tell the truth.
It's a paradox that's at the heart of any kind of storytelling.
- Jeremy Northam
There's a lot of other movies I like,
but I don't even pay attention to directors to tell you the truth.
- Jason Mewes
I do not have the answers and as a woman I do not intend
to play my own thoughts over the truth.
I can clearly state the problems and tell you that I suffer from them.
- Lynette Fromme
When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
- Otto von Bismarck
The Republican National Committee hired me,
and they hired me because they wanted someone who could
look members straight in the eye and tell them the truth.
- Frank Luntz
The time has come to tell the truth about the corruption
of the government employee unions in this country.
- Newt Gingrich
Tell the truth, work hard, and come to dinner on time.
- Gerald R. Ford
Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
- W. Somerset Maugham
I was smart, to tell you the truth.
I'm not really bright, but I'm not stupid.
- Bobby Vinton
You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth.
Then you don't have to remember what you have said,
and you never forget what you have said.
- Sam Rayburn
The price of being close to the President is delivering bad news.
You fail him if you don't tell him the truth.
Others won't do it.
- Donald Rumsfeld
I will tell the truth wherever I please.
- Mary Harris Jones
I came here to tell you the truth, the good,
the bad and the ugly.
- Oliver North
It's been a pretty fun ride, to tell you the truth.
- R. Lee Ermey
You know I took an oath to tell the truth when I took the witness stand.
- Mary Harris Jones
If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.
- Logan P. Smith
I don't think that we necessarily lie.
I mean, we make our living by pretending that we're someone else.
I don't tell tall tales.
I always tell the truth.
- Albert Finney
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth,
is better than a lie detector.
It encourages a man to be expansive,
even reckless,
while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.
- Graham Greene
Son, always tell the truth.
Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time.
- Sam Rayburn
My friends seem much more excited about my doing Anastasia than Brainstorm...
and to tell you the truth, I feel the same way.
- Natalie Wood
When you put your hand on the Bible,
you are saying something much stronger than just telling
your peers that you're going to tell the truth.
- Lee Greenwood
If you tell the truth about how you're feeling,
it becomes funny.
- Larry David
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man
of some sense to know how to lie well.
- Samuel Butler
If you want to annoy your neighbors,
tell the truth about them.
- Pietro Aretino
To tell you the truth, I never listen to opera at home.
- Lesley Garrett
It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of
course you are an exceptionally good liar.
- Jerome K. Jerome
Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones.
They are the big, the strong, the wonderful.
In truth, women are the strong ones.
It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.
- Coco Chanel
Washington couldn't tell a lie, Nixon couldn't tell the truth,
and Reagan couldn't tell the difference.
- Mort Sahl
Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.
- Emily Dickinson
I've always had a problem with people who couldn't
tell the truth or admit a mistake and say they're wrong.
- Burt Bacharach
Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
- Francis Bacon
This is our lives.
The way to give it dignity is to tell the truth.
- Lee Grant
Tell the truth and shame the devil.
- Francois Rabelais
You can read everybody.
It's not even interesting to tell the truth because
to some extent it's false.
- Charles Olson
How can faceless bureaucrats in an intelligence agency
deny brave soldiers a chance to tell the truth?
- Curt Weldon
Probably what my comment meant was that I don't care
about the circumstances if I can tell the truth.
- Sally Kirkland
I aim to tell the truth about any subject,
not a romance or fantasy, not avoid the truth.
- Anita Desai
Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is,
and tell it like it is, to find the truth,
to speak the truth, and to live the truth.
- Richard M. Nixon
I'll tell you the truth; I wanted to leave me for Sid Caesar.
- Red Buttons
So you know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna do something really outrageous,
I'm gonna tell the truth.
- John Travolta
A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying,
Tell the truth.
Reveal a few secrets here.
- Quentin Tarantino
The first function of poetry is to tell the truth,
to learn how to do that, to find out what you really
feel and what you really think.
- June Jordan
There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that
they can't tell the truth without lying.
- Josh Billings
Listen, I will now tell you the truth and there is no other.
- Isaac Stern
An autobiography is not about pictures;
it's about the stories; it's about honesty and as much
truth as you can tell without coming too close to other people's privacy.
- Boris Becker
I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold,
or the sword.
I will tell the truth wherever I please.
- Mother Jones
It's too bad for us 'literary' enthusiasts,
but it's the truth nevertheless - pictures tell any
story more effectively than words.
- William Moulton Marston
I'm not into older guys.
To tell you the truth, Richard Gere is not the sexiest man alive,
in my book.
- Winona Ryder
To tell the truth, I don't read children's books.
I'm an adult.
I just write them.
- William Steig
It's a lot easier to tell the truth usually.
- Elliott Smith
Follow the wisdom of the great actor,
James Cagney, you hit your mark, you look the other guy in the eye,
and you tell the truth.
- Larry Merchant
There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself -
an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.
- Antisthenes
Tell the truth.
- Ian Hunter
No painting can tell the truth of a single instant;
no snapshot can do anything else.
- John A. Kouwenhoven
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