'Everything I have just said is nonsense. It bears no resemblance to the truth of the matter in any way at all. But it is a lie that you can ... understand, I think.' (TOT)
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'... are you sure it's all true?'
'I'm sure it's all journalism', said William. 'And what is that supposed to mean?' 'It means it's true enough for now.' (TT) 'He's a policeman. The truth usually confuses them. They don't often hear it.' (TT)
He'd found hard truth less hard than an easy lie. (TT)
He knew he had hidden depths. There was nothing in them that he'd like to see float to the surface. (FE)
....if the truth wasn't what you wanted it to be, you turned it into a different version of the truth. (Do)
A leader should know all about truth and honesty, and when to see the difference. (Truck)
... the traditions of the Dibbler clan would never let a mere disastrous fact get in the way of a spiel. (LC)
'Can't argue with the truth, sir.'
'In my experience, Vimes, you can argue with anything.' (J) Igneous had always found the general denial was more reliable than the specific refutation. (FC)
That's rumour for you. If we could modulate it with the truth, how useful it could be .... (FC)
People who would not believe a High Priest if he said the sky was blue, and was able to produce signed affidavits to this effect from his white-haired old mother and three Vestal virgins, would trust just about anything whispered darkly behind their hand by a complete stranger in a pub. (Ma)
People remember badly. But societies remember well, the swarm remembers, encoding the information to slip it past the censors of the mind, passing it in from grandmother to grandchild in little bits of nonsense they won't bother to forget. Sometimes the truth keeps itself alive in devious ways despite the best efforts of the official keepers of information. (LL)
‘It’s like people care more about their pride than about what’s correct, about the truth. What kind of sense does that make?’ (LM)
‘The search for the truth might be flawed, but the search itself is priceless.’ (JD)
'Everybody knows trolls eat people and spit them out. Everybody knows dwarfs cut off your legs. But at the same time everybody knows that what everybody knows is wrong.' (UA)
Linsay was a left ear person, Valiente realised. He had seen plenty of them: their eyes glazed slightly and they stared fixedly at your left ear, while their mouths spouted the truth about flying saucers, the great world conspiracy, or one-born-every-minute evangelism. Inside everyone was a left ear person waiting to get out. (LE)
‘…. Whatever the truth of the universe was, it certainly wasn’t something that could have been discerned by a quarrelsome bunch of antique ecclesiasticals.’ (LE)
They are said to be incapable of lying, although this piece of information has been provided by the Zoons themselves, causing, as it were, a philosophical conundrum. (Sn)
'The Nac Mac Feegle feel the truth is so precious that it shouldn't be waved about too much …' (ISWM)
The right tone from a woman with her arms folded always bounces an answer out of an unprepared man before he has time to think, and even before he has time to think up a lie. (UA)
… he decided not on the whole truth, but instead on nothing but the truth, which dispensed with the need for honesty. (UA)
Truth is female, since truth is beauty rather than handsomeness, this Ridcully reflected as the Council grumbled in, would certainly explain the saying that a lie could run around the world before Truth has got its, correction, her boots on, since she would have to choose which pair – the idea that any woman in a position to choose would have just one pair of boots being beyond rational belief. (UA)
Granny had never had much time for words. They were so insubstantial. Now she wished that she had found the time. Words were indeed insubstantial. They were as soft as water, but they were also as powerful as water and now they were rushing over the audience, eroding the levees of veracity, and carrying away the past. (WS)
'There’s more than one kind of truth.' (Wings)
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