“I did not deceive you, mon ami. At most, I permitted you to deceive yourself.”
More from Agatha Christie on Truth
“Evil never goes unpunished, Monsieur. But the punishment is sometimes secret.”
“When you find that people are not telling you the truth---look out!”
“To know when to use the truth is the essence of successful deception”
“...But even then you have to reckon with a criminal's chief vice.''What is that?'' Conceit. A criminal never believes that his crime can fail.”
“The innocent must not suffer.”
“It is so unkind--' 'Perhaps. But sometimes a compulsion comes over one to speak the truth!”
Others on Truth
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
11 quotes“Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.”
Mark Twain
8 quotes“I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't.”
Cervantes
8 quotes“Facts are the enemy of truth.”
Aesop
7 quotes“No one believes a liar even when he tells the truth”
Patrick Rothfuss
7 quotes“...nothing in the world is harder than convincing someone of an unfamiliar truth.”
Malcolm X
7 quotes“You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.”
Terry Pratchett
7 quotes“Little crimes breed big crimes. You smile at little crimes and then big crimes blow your head off.”
H. L. Mencken
6 quotes“Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it.”
Lord Byron
6 quotes“And after all what is a lie? Tis but The truth in masquerade.”
Barbara Kingsolver
6 quotes“The urge to lie is produced by the contradictions in our lives. We are made to declare love for our country, while it tr...”
Martin Luther King
6 quotes“In the end, what will hurt us the most is not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.”
George Orwell
6 quotes“Progress is not an illusion; it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.”