David Mitchell Quotes

Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies; history has no place for them.

It's a weird thing about the truth: It protects you. What really makes you vulnerable is when you're lying because you're going to get caught. When you tell the truth, there's a strange relief that comes.

I don't do much lying in real life because I don't get away with it.

If I utter one lie, I'll have to remember it the next time someone asks me about it. It's far simpler to state the truth.

They're only words, unless they're true.

Truth is his inspirer, and earnestness the polisher of his sentences. He could afford to lose his Sharp's rifles, while he retained his faculty of speech,--a Sharp's rifle of infinitely surer and longer range.

It is very difficult to tell the truth.

I cannot stand dishonesty among people, the tendency to prevaricate.

I really believe the stuff I say.

If you're not talking about the truth, I don't even want you around me.

Truth is a hell of a big point with me. Now I exaggerate—always.

The truth is always an insult or a joke, lies are generally tastier. We love them. The nature of lies is to please. Truth has no concern for anyone's comfort

You deliver a message every time you speak. Do you deliver the truth, or do you deliver lies? When the message you deliver comes from truth and love, you are happier.

I am sincere, ma petite, even when I lie.

The truth is the most important part of being impeccable with your word...Only the truth will set us free.

A man must not always tell all, for that be folly; but what a man says should be what he thinks.

Everything must have in it a sharp seasoning of truth.

I personally don’t have the ability to lie about my life, for better or for worse.

Honesty was a tough customer... Once you started allowing yourself some honesty, it couldn't easily be contained or limited to one part of your life. It was like poison ivy or a bossy houseguest. Once it was there, you couldn't tell it what to do. You had to really fight to keep it from taking over.

What would happen if we spoke the truth?

The truth is ever best.

Seek the truth. Tell the truth. Live in truth.

Truthfulness is the real mark of integrity.

Truth, as ever, avoids the stranger.

No lie can live forever.