Rachel Cohn Quotes

This is what I do know: A lie, however well-intended, can't prepare you for reality or change the world... To tell the truth is to provide armament against a world too full of cruelties to be defeated with simple falsehoods... It seems to me we owe the world--more, we owe ourselves--the exchange of comfort for the chance that maybe the truth can do what people always say it can. The truth may, given the opportunity, set us free.

We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.

Many people would rather have fine words and false hopes than the truth which is unacceptable.

A man had rather a hundred lies told of him than one truth which he does not wish to be told.

Lies are dangerous but sometimes necessary when a country is in danger.

It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interest of the country.

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

Can’t promise I’ll stay. That would be lying. And I’m so, so tired of lies.

I am a physician. I keep a drug-shop of lies. I give relief, consolation. Can one console and relieve without lying? ... Only women and doctors know how necessary and how helpful lies are to men.

But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.

Granny Weatherwax was firmly against fiction. Life was hard enough without lies floating around and changing the way people thought.

Lies written in ink cannot disguise facts written in blood.

The heartbreaking necessity of lying about reality and the heartbreaking impossibilty of lying about it

Of course a picture can lie, but only if you are not honest with yourself.

You've learned that every good lie is threaded with truth and every accepted truth leaks lies.

La ve rite existe; on n'invente que le mensonge. Truth exists; only lies are invented.

All liars ... lie to protect themselves, to shield their egos from the raw pain of truth.

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

Truth is a naked and open daylight, that does not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle-lights. . . A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure

Since I wasn't able to leave a succession of beautiful lies, I want to leave the smidgen of truth that the falsehood of everything lets us suppose we can tell.

I don't think most people take honest well. They prefer the games. They want to believe the pretty lies.

There is at least one truth to every myth, and it takes one truth to create a lie. Lies can be formed from Truth; however, Truth cannot be formed from lies.

Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death. I can work out a good character much faster than anyone can lie me out of it

Some things can be both real and imaginary at the same time, . . . some lies can be true, . . . broken faith may be restored.