Augustine Birrell Quotes

As a main ingredient to the show, it has to have truth, represent truth, or else it won't last.

The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.

Clearness is so often one of the characteristics of truth that often it even passes for truth itself.

I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.

Never question the relevance of truth, but always question the truth of relevance.

Truth is what works.

I like to have the impression that whatever is happening is true.

A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie.

Lest men suspect your tale untrue, Keep probability in view.

Truth: An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance …

Whether the story reflects the facts is obviously a different matter.

Truth is simply a compliment paid to sentences seen to be paying their way.

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

And if that isn't the truth, it would be a lie.

Truth is so much more interesting than the fiction we're used to.

This is not a sham, not a game. This is the real stuff.

Everything I say is true.

People forget that unauthorized does not mean untrue and authorized does not mean authentic.

What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.

Truth is in things, and not in words.

You need to be real enough to be believable, but you don't necessarily have to be real enough to be real. There is a distinction.

This time it is the truth.

The measure of our [the Voice of America] success will be the degree to which we are believed.

Time trieth truth.

They were giving the substance of truth to what we were dreaming.