Andre Maurois Quotes

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

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 great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.

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

I've always operated under the notion that audiences don't always know when they're being lied to, but that they always know when they're being told the truth.

You cannot tell an audience a lie. They know it before you do; before it's out of your mouth, they know it's a lie.

Truth is a point of view, but authenticity can't be faked.

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

Truth never was indebted to a lie.

Kids know when you're pulling a fast one, storywise, and I think that even when they're being entertained, children want to hear the truth, just like adults do.

A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself.

Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.

I'm not a liar.

All stories should have some honesty and truth in them, otherwise you're just playing about.

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

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

The truthful man is usually a liar.

I don't do much lying in real life because I don't get away with it.

First and foremost, you want to be truthful as a storyteller.

It's best not to appear to believe what you say but to believe what you say.

Don't you ever ask me for a true statement again!

Have you weaned yourself of your off-putting proclivity for not telling the truth/

Truth is a standard both of itself and of falsity.

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

One of the things I learned early on was the system of believing: you have to believe in what you say. The camera is the arbiter of truth; it's the all-seeing eye that can pick out discrepancies. You can't lie to the camera. You must believe in what you're saying, or the audience won't believe you.