History Quotes / TruthAndLies

->''"A lie is just a great story that someone ruined with the truth."''
-->-- '''Barney Stinson''', ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'', "[[Recap/HowIMetYourMotherS5E19ZooOrFalse Zoo or False]]"

->''"The truth now, Calpurnia. We are both too wretched for lies."''
-->-- '''Confessor Orovene''', ''[[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}} Blind]]''

->''"The Daemon lied with every breath. It could not help itself but to deceive and dismay, to riddle and ruin. The more we conversed, the closer I came to a single, ineluctable fact: I would gain no wisdom here. The Daemon's mind was a labyrinth of deceptions. Truth was trammeled at the very heart of the maze, far beyond my meager reach."''
-->-- '''The Liber Malefic''', ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}''

->''"The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Life would be quite tedious if it were either."''
-->-- '''Algernon Moncrieff''', ''Theatre/TheImportanceOfBeingEarnest''

-> '''PHB''': You must quantity the unquatifiable, and that can only be done by a process called lying.
-> '''Asok''': Lying is a process?
-> '''PHB''': It can be, if you use enough [=PowerPoint=] slides.
-->-- ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}''

->''"We are men of action. Lies do not become us."''
-->-- '''Wesley''', ''Film/ThePrincessBride''

->'''Monica:''' So you lied to him?\\
'''Chandler:''' It's always better to lie than to have a complicated discussion!
-->-- ''Series/{{Friends}}''

'''Garak:''' That you should never tell the same lie twice.\\

-->--'''1 John 2:21'''

-- ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine''

-> Sir, I don't know if he's worth talking to, sir, but he may 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. And we don't have to tell him the truth, sir. We could lie to him, too

-> The truth now, Calpurnia. We are both too wretched for lies.

-> The Daemon lied with every breath. It could not help itself but to deceive and dismay, to riddle and ruin. The more we conversed, the closer I came to a single, ineluctable fact: I would gain no wisdom here. The Daemon's mind was a labyrinth of deceptions. Truth was trammeled at the very heart of the maze, far beyond my meager reach.

-> The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Life would be quite tedious if it were either.

->''I write to you not because you do not know the truth, but because you do, and because every lie is alien to the truth.''

-->-- '''Algernon Moncrieff''', ''TheImportanceOfBeingEarnest''

-> '''Bashir:''' But the point [of "[[AesopsFables The Boy Who Cried Wolf]]"] is, if you lie all the time, nobody's going to believe you, even when you're telling the truth.\\

-->-- ''{{Dilbert}}''

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-> '''PHB''': It can be, if you use enough powerpoint slides.

-->-- '''Polly''', ''[[{{Discworld}} Monstrous Regiment]]''

-> The truth now, Calpurnia. We are both too wretched for lies.
-->-- '''Confessor Orovene''', ''[[{{Warhammer 40000}} Blind]]''

-> The Daemon lied with every breath. It could not help itself but to deceive and dismay, to riddle and ruin. The more we conversed, the closer I came to a single, ineluctable fact: I would gain no wisdom here. The Daemon's mind was a labyrinth of deceptions. Truth was trammeled at the very heart of the maze, far beyond my meager reach.
-->-- '''The Liber Malefic''', ''{{Warhammer 40000}}''

-> '''PHB''': You must quantity the unquatifiable, and that can only be done by a process called lying.
-> '''Asok''': Lying is a process?
-> '''PHB''': It can be, if you use enough powerpoint slides.
-->-- ''{{Dilbert}}''

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-- ''StarTrekDeepSpaceNine''

-> '''Bashir:''' But the point [of "The Boy Who Cried Wolf"] is, if you lie all the time, nobody's going to believe you, even when you're telling the truth.\\