A. A. Milne Quotes

… he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false, is guilty of falsehood; and the accidental truth of the assertion, does not justify or excuse him.

Through language, we can tell the truth and hear the truth spoken, just as we can be deceived. Sometimes it's a painful realization: we can be lied to. As I write, I think of myself as putting my eye under oath, so that what I write is the truth about my characters.

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.

I'm not a liar.

Every fact in the universe will fit every other fact in the universe. A lie never did, never will fit anything but another lie made to fit it. Never, never!

The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.

A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.

You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.

The truthful man is usually a liar.

Avoid the company of a liar. And if you can't avoid him, don't believe him.

I doubt he knows himself when he’s not telling the truth.

Liars sometimes tell the truth; they don’t tell lies all the time.

What is earnest is not always the truth.

Certainly today we are incredibly tolerant of untruth.

Scripts can be slick and structured, but do they always contain the truth?

You can create many lies from Truth, but you cannot create any truths from lies.

There wasn't any more truth in over half of what any so-called orator said. If it wasn't a Deliberate Lie, why it was an Exaggerated Falsehood.

The true word leads; the untrue misleads.

When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback.

You need to tell the truth to the audience, or they will throw a brick through the TV. They'll turn you off.

The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.

For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that - is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

I've always operated under the notion that audiences don't always know when they're being lied to, but that they always know when they're being told the truth.