William Butler Yeats Quotes

It sounds so cheesy, but there's something very powerful about looking in the mirror and asking yourself a question. Because I think it's really hard to lie.

I want to unfold. I don’t want to stay folded anywhere, because where I am folded, there I am a lie.

Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse.

Better one bite at forty, of truths bitter rind, than the hot wine that gushed from the vintage of twenty.

I'm not one of those actors who lies about their age.

With the birth of my first child and my involvement with my first husband, I basically stopped lying. I just didn't want to lie anymore, because it reduces the stature of the person you're lying to.

I didn't put out this album because I wanted everybody to know I was grown up. I'm 21 and that's not grown up.

I think it's weird to not be honest about your age.

Oh.' I shot upright. 'I was in Mongolia.' Note to self: learn to be a less extreme liar.

Never trust a woman who will not lie about her age after thirty. She is unwomanly and unhuman and there is no knowing what crimes she will commit.

The truth is everything in the end. It is the greatest power in the world to make all people equal. If everyone knows what the truth is, no one can use lies to separate those people and turn them against one another.

Once you know the truth, you can’t ever go back and pick up your suitcase of lies. Heavier or not, the truth is yours now.

Although human beings are incapable of talking about themselves with total honesty, it is much harder to avoid the truth while pretending to be other people. They often reveal much about themselves in a very straightforward way. I am certain that I did. There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.

Take your faith out of the lies! Free your faith, and you will see how powerful you become.

Only one deception is possible in the infinite sense, self-deception.

I don’t want to stand before you like a thing, shrewd, secretive. I want my own will, and I want simply to be with my will, as it goes toward action. And in the silent, sometimes hardly moving times, when something is coming near, I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone. I want to unfold. I don’t want to be folded anywhere, because where I am folded, there I am a lie.

For two extraordinary years I have been working on it - learning to write - but mostly learning how to tell the truth. At first it is quite impossible. You make yourself better than anybody, then worse than anybody, and when you finally come to see you are "like" everybody - that is the bitterest blow of all to the ego. But in the end it is only the truth, no matter how ugly or shameful, that is right, that fits together, that makes real people, and strangely enough - beauty.

As you get older your willingness to tell more of the truth is awakened and you don't have to think about it or imagine it because now you know this to be true.

After fifty most of the bullshit is gone.

I've never lied about my age.

What Can I Tell You about Myself which You Have Not Already Found Out from Those Who Do Not Lie?

In terms of my life, I guess I want to share whatever I've learned really, which is basically one thing: know yourself, look for yourself, know what to look for, cherish it, be honest, be authentic, even if it hurts your feelings. That's not bad.

Maturity is reached the day we don't need to be lied to about anything.

Though truth and falsehood be Near twins, yet truth a little elder is.