Storm Jameson Quotes

Yes, of course, there's something fishy about describing people's feelings. You try hard to be accurate, but as soon as you start to define such and such a feeling, language lets you down. It's really a machine for making falsehoods. When we really speak the truth, words are insufficient. Almost everything except things like "pass the gravy" is a lie of a sort. And that being the case, I shall shut up. Oh, and... pass the gravy.

It is easier not to say anything. Shut your trap, button your lip, can it. All that crap you hear on TV about communication and expressing feelings is a lie. Nobody really wants to hear what you have to say.

words can never get at the truth.

The truth is always greater than the words we use to describe it.

Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies.

Why would anybody lie? The truth is always more colourful.

You didn't tell a lie, you just left a big hole in the truth.

Sometimes truth is costly but not nearly as costly as deception.

There is so much falsehood both at home and at school. At home one must not speak, and at school we have to stand and tell lies to the children.

The truth is generally seen, rarely heard.

He who tells the truth says almost nothing.

Words have to murder reality before they can hold it captive.

I read an interview with a Japanese freestyle jazz musician once, and he said something like, "Everything I'm going to tell you is not going to be true." He's not saying, "I'm trying to lie to you." But he's kind of saying that you can never say what something really is.

I do know that the slickest way to lie is to tell the right amount of truth--then shut up.

A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.

To an incompetent judge I must not lie, but I may be silent; to a competent I must answer.

A novel which persuades us of its truth is true however full of lies it may be

When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.

From what you didn’t say, lies that you did say.

The silence that makes it possible to hear God speak also makes it possible for us to hear the world's words for what they really are - tinny and unconvincing lies.

Truth can remain silent. Lies must be spoken.

Thus the feeling I sometimes have - which all of us who work closely with aphasiacs have - that one cannot lie to an aphasiac. He cannot grasp your words, and cannot be deceived by them; but what he grasps he grasps with infallible precision, namely the expression that goes with the words, the total, spontaneous, involuntary expressiveness which can never be simulated or faked, as words alone can, too easily.

If you have something to say and say nothing, you are really telling a lie.

Some truths did not bear saying, and some lies were necessary.