Luc de Clapiers Quotes

There's just no substitute for the truth.

Upon my word, I think the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with.

You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music. The thing about music is that nobody listens to it unless it's real. I don't think that you can fool anybody for too long in music. And you certainly can't fool everybody.

Knock Knock. Who's there? The Truth. No joke.

I don't believe in dressing up reality. I don't believe in using makeup to make things look smoother.

Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

He who is dishonest with respect to speech, is dishonest in everything.

I admit that I have more truth than eloquence.

Instead of sounding pretentious, phony, or repetitive, I'd rather not speak.

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.

It is so difficult - at least, I find it difficult - to understand people who speak the truth.

Bitter though it may be to many, Cadfael concluded, there is no substitute for truth, in this or any case.

The truth is a precious commodity. That's why I use it so sparingly.

Veracity does not consist in saying, but in the intention of communicating the truth.

Give me truth; cheat me by no illusion.

If you want to be true to life, start lying about it

Lying is too much trouble. You have to make sure to taste each word before letting it off your tongue. I hate that. It's hard enough making people understand without lying.

If thou art wise, incline to truth; for truth, not the semblance, remains in its place.

One can lie, but truth is more interesting.

You don't make your words true by embellishing them with religious lace. In making your speech sound more religious, it becomes less true.

He who cannot exaggerate is not qualified to utter truth.

No one tells the truth to people they don't actually know, and if they do it is a horrible trait. Everyone wants something smaller, something neater than the truth.

But chiefly, no lies! No lies about there being a Santa Claus or about the world being full of noble and honorable people all eager to help each other and do good to each other. I'll tell her there are honor and goodness in the world, the same as there are diamonds and radium.

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.