Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
-Oscar Wilde
Quotations
Truth
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
-Winston S. Churchill
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
-Mark Twain
Truth never comes where lust and fame and greed of gain resides.
-Swami Vivekananda
There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously.
-Thomas Sowell
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
-William Blake
"Auguries of Innocence"
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
-Oscar Wilde
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
-Thomas Jefferson
It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
-Jerome K. Jerome
But better to be hurt by the truth than be comforted with a lie.
-Khaled Hosseini
