Tobias Menzies Quotes

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

Writers don't have to keep themselves honest. They have to keep themselves accurate.

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

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

Everything I say is true.

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

What is earnest is not always the truth.

… 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.

There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth.

Everything I say is 95% truthful.

A man says something. Sometimes it turns out to be the truth, but this has nothing to do with the man who says it.

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

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

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

My purpose is to make my narrative as truthful as possible.

Believe half of what you see and only some of what you hear, unless you hear it from me.

Truth is the best defense.

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

I do not make stories up, full stop.

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

Fact-checking doesn't exist primarily because some of us are liars and cheats. It exists because writers will be writers, much as they may mean to be historians.

I am someone who values truth - actual truth as opposed to 'truthiness.'

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.

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