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“If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.”
Source: Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties
“People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.”
“You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.”
“A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.”
Source: Democracy, and Other Addresses
“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”
Source: The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
“A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.”
Source: Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Hoover Years, 1929-1931
“There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.”
“As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.”
“A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.”
“Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.”
Source: As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations
“I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.”
Source: Conversations with Hunter S. Thompson
“If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?”
“When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.”
Source: The Works of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, Embracing Novels, Romances, Plays, Poems, Biography, Short Stories and Great Speeches: Contarini Fleming, v. 2. Count Alarcos. Popanilla
“If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.”
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray - and more
“If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.”
Source: Epigrams of Oscar Wilde
“Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.”
“The reason I talk to myself is that I'm the only one whose answers I accept.”
Source: Napalm & Silly Putty
“My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world.”
Source: Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review
“No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies.”
Source: Mark Twain's Fables of Man
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“All of us contain Music & Truth, but most of us can't get it out.”
“Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense.”
“Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.”
“I'm going to speak my mind because I have nothing to lose.”
“If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.”
“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.”
“It is man that makes truth great, and not truth that makes man great.”