Isaac Bashevis Singer Quotes

Keep it simple. Tell the truth. People can smell the truth.

Truth is a jewel which should not be painted over; but it may be set to advantage and shown in a good light.

I've grown tired of smoke and mirrors. I yearn for the clean, well-lighted place.

The truth, she found, felt smooth, like a skipping stone in the palm of your hand.

With trees and rocks and the sea and the stars and the clouds and the sun - you cannot be unreal, you cannot be phoney. You HAVE to be real because when you are encountering nature, nature creates something in you which is natural. Responding to nature continuously, you become natural.

You know I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appals me. There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies - which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world - what I want to forget.

If people could be as honest as animals, what a different world it would be.

One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.

No lie ever reaches old age.

That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquillity.

For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.

When somebody asks me a question, I try to be as straightforward about it as possible. I try not to overthink what I'm going to say in an interview.

It does not require many words to speak the truth.

The truth needs so little rehearsal.

Ring out the false, ring in the true.

The words of truth are simple.

There are many crooked lines and one straight line. Which is the line of truth? Why the straight line? Truth is always the shortest distance between two points.

You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

The language of truth is unadorned and always simple.

If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.

Nature admits no lie.

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

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