'Sounds a bit unbelievable to me,’ said Glurk.
‘Oh, yes. But that doesn’t mean it isn’t true.' (CP)
‘Oh, yes. But that doesn’t mean it isn’t true.' (CP)
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'An explanation?’ he said, shifting uneasily. ‘Oh, aye. An Explanation. Nae problemo. An Explanation. Er … what kind would you like?’
‘What kind? I just want the truth!’ 'Aye? Oh. The truth? Are you sure?’ Rob ventured, rather nervously. ‘I can do much more interestin’ Explanations than that -' (W) Er ... would you accept a wee bitty lie?’ Rob said.
‘No!’ ‘It’s interestin’. There’s dragons an’unicorns in it -’ ‘No. I want the truth!’ ‘Ach, it’s so boring.' (W) 'What would you do if I asked you an outright question, Vimes?’
‘I’d tell you an outright lie, sir.' (Th) ... he talked about history and destiny and all the other words that always got trotted out to put a gloss on slaughter. It was heady stuff, except that brains weren’t involved. (Th)
Sometimes the truth is arrived at by adding all the little lies together and deducting them from the totality of what is known. (GP)
... you might end up wondering what the truth really was, or whether there were lots of different kinds of truth. (MR)
'Too many lies and there’s no truth to go back to.' (MR)
The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to those who think they’ve found it. (MR)
'... he might be worth listening to. Even if you think he’ll only tell us lies. Because sometimes, sir, the way people tell you lies, if they tell you enough lies, well, they sort of…show you what shape the truth is, sir.' (MR)
Tiffany was on the whole quite a truthful person, but it seemed to her that there were times when things didn’t divide easily into ‘true’and ‘false’, but instead could be ‘things that people needed to know at the moment’ and ‘things that they didn’t need to know at the moment’. (WFM)
Lu-Tze sighed. ‘Y’know, most of what you get taught is lies. It has to be. Sometimes if you get the truth all at once,you can’t understand it.' (TOT)
... nothing has to be true for ever. Just for long enough, to tell you the truth. (TT)
'... a lie can run round the world before the truth has got its boots on ...' (TT)
Truth was what he told. Honesty was sometimes not the same thing. (TT)
'Oh, don’t blame yourself, Mrs. Ogg. I’m sure others will do that for you -' (CJ)
'There’s no greys, only white that’s got grubby. I’m surprised you don’t know that. And sin, young man, is when you treat people as things. Including yourself. That’s what sin is.’
‘It’s a lot more complicated than that -’ ‘No. It ain’t. When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they’re getting worried that they won’t like the truth. People as things, that’s where it starts.' (CJ) All tribal myths are true, for a given value of ‘true’. (LC)
The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head. (H)
Walter's face was an agony of indecision but, erratic though his thinking might have been, it was no match for Nanny Ogg’s meretricious duplicity. He was up against a mind that regarded truth as a reference point but certainly not as a shackle. Nanny Ogg could think her way through a corkscrew in a tornado without touching the sides. (Ma)
CALLING SOMETHING A FIGURE OF SPEECH DOESN’T MEAN IT’S NOT TRUE. (M)
'We are armed with the truth. What can harm us if we are armed with the truth?’
‘Well, a crossbow bolt can, e.g., go right through your eye and out the back of your head,’ said Sergeant Colon. (MA) 'Are you really an outrageous liar?’
‘No.’ ‘Why are you trying to rob coaches, then?’ ‘I am afraid I was waylaid by bandits.’ ‘But it says here,’ said Ridcully, ‘that you are a finest swordsman.’ ‘I was outnumbered.’ ‘How many of them were there?’ ‘Three million.' (LL) Nanny Ogg had a pragmatic attitude to the truth; she told it if it was convenient and she couldn’t be bothered to make up something more interesting. (LL)
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