101 Quotes About Truth-and-lies

We can’t see the true characters of those who lurk in the shade until they are exposed to the light…

Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect: like a man, who hath thought of a good repartee when the discourse is changed, or the company parted; or like a physician, who hath found out an infallible medicine, after the patient is dead.

It is the dirt within men’s hearts that is most offensive; the filth you cannot see.

And they want me to hear the story direct from the horse’s mouth.”“So now I am a horse? A horse is not kosher!

The first thing people hear or see on the internet is the first thing they believe. No matter what the truth is.

Ugly truths are the biggest source of indigestion in humans.

People would rather live in a community with unreasonable claims, than face loneliness with their truth

I'm right and wrong, moral and immoral, good and bad, a hero and a villain, and I've been just as capable of truth as I have been lies.

He who dares not offend cannot be honest.