“It is so unkind--' 'Perhaps. But sometimes a compulsion comes over one to speak the truth!”
More from Agatha Christie on Truth
“I did not deceive you, mon ami. At most, I permitted you to deceive yourself.”
“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.”
Others on Truth
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
11 quotes“When once your point of view is changed, the very thing which was so damning becomes a clue to the truth.”
Mark Twain
8 quotes“Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.”
Cervantes
8 quotes“Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water."~ Miguel de Cerv...”
Aesop
7 quotes“After all is said and done, more is said than done.”
Patrick Rothfuss
7 quotes“Lies are simpler, and most of the time they make better sense.”
Malcolm X
7 quotes“You can't have capitalism without racism.”
Terry Pratchett
7 quotes“When people talk about their great past they're usually trying to excuse the mediocre present.”
Barbara Kingsolver
6 quotes“The truth needs so little rehearsal.”
Tacitus
6 quotes“Greater things are believed of those who are absent.”
Frederick Douglass
6 quotes“America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.”
John Locke
6 quotes“I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.”
Martin Luther King
6 quotes“A right delayed is a right denied.”