“Implausible truth can serve one better than plausible fiction”
More from David Mitchell on Truth
“Loyalty looks simple... but it ain't.”
“Lying's wrong, but when the world spins backwards, a small wrong may be a big right.”
“Integrity is a bugger, it really is. Lying can get you into difficulties, but to really wind up in the crappers try telling nothing but the truth.”
“Photos’re better than nothing, but things’re better than photos ’cause the things themselves were part of what was there.”
Others on Truth
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
11 quotes“Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.”
Cervantes
8 quotes“Facts are the enemy of truth.”
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.”
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.”
Aesop
7 quotes“No one believes a liar even when he tells the truth”
Agatha Christie
7 quotes“The innocent must not suffer.”
Patrick Rothfuss
7 quotes“...nothing in the world is harder than convincing someone of an unfamiliar truth.”
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.”
Frederick Douglass
6 quotes“America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.”
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...”