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  • Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.

    Truth   Children   Lying  
  • Tell all the Truth, but tell it slant/Success in Circuit lies.

    c.1868 Complete Poems, no.1129 (first published 1945).
  • There wasn't any particular player I modeled my game after. I tried to learn from everyone and create my own style. I studied past players... Truth be told I never had a favorite player. It's just not my nature to go around idolizing people. I just go try to learn.

    Past   Player   Games  
    "The Top Chess Player In The World Impressed The Heck Out Of Everyone At This NYC Exhibition". Interview with Gus Lubin, www.businessinsider.com. September 4, 2012.
  • If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.

    Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.197, Wordsworth Editions
  • Truth never damages a cause that is just.

    Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.47, New Directions Publishing
  • They say that Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was a homosexual. Truth be told, we don't love him because of that, but he was a great musician, and we all love his music. So what? I assure you that I work with these people. I sometimes award them with state prizes or decorations for their achievements in various fields. We have absolutely normal relations, and I don't see anything out of the ordinary here.

    "Tchaikovsky May Have Been Gay, Putin Reluctantly Admits" by • Alexander Abad-Santos, www.theatlantic.com. September 4, 2013.
  • But truth be told, I'm not as dour-looking as I would like. I'm stuck with this round, sweetie-pie face, tiny heart-shaped lips, the daintiest dimples, and apple cheeks so rosy I appear in a perpetual blush. At five foot four, I barely squeak by average height. And then there's my voice: straight out of second grade. I come across so young and innocent and harmless that I have been carded for buying maple syrup. Tourists feel more safe approaching me for directions, telemarketers always ask if my mother is home, and waitresses always, always call me 'Hon.

    Mother   Heart   Home  
  • Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go; the sooner the better.

    Swami Vivekananda (1953). “Complete Works”
  • All I know, is that I feel extremely blessed to be on TV. Its a hard job, but real life is harder. Truth be told, playgrounds can be war zones.

    Jobs   Real   War  
  • The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.

    Fear   Truth   Tyrants  
  • Truth is generally the best vindication against slander

    Truth   Honesty   Libel  
    Gordon Leidner, Abraham Lincoln (2009). “Abraham Lincoln: Quotes, Quips, and Speeches”, p.37, Sourcebooks, Inc.
  • The truth be told, the World Trade Center was neither a very good work of architecture nor a very successful piece of urbanism. Its shortcomings were somewhat mitigated by the westward and southward expansion of the World Financial Center and Battery Park City during the 1980s.

  • If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory!

    Mark Twain, Classics HD (2015). “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: by Mark Twain (Illustrated and Unabridged)”, p.2, Classics HD
  • The rapt pupil will be forgiven for assuming the Tsar of Death to be wicked and the Tsar of Life to be virtuous. Let the truth be told: There is no virtue anywhere. Life is sly and unscrupulous, a blackguard, wolfish, severe. In service to itself, it will commit any offense. So, too, is Death possessed of infinite strategies and a gaunt nature- but also mercy, also grace and tenderness. In his own country, Death can be kind.

    Country   Grace   Wicked  
    Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.79, Macmillan
  • Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.

    Wisdom   Truth   Honesty  
  • Truth be told, there is not one day that goes by when I don't fall in love with someone, with something.

  • A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

    'Auguries of Innocence' (c.1803) l. 53
  • If a lie is only printed often enough, it becomes a quasi-truth, and if such a truth is repeated often enough, it becomes an article of belief, a dogma, and men will die for it.

    "The crown of a life". Book by Isa Blagden, 1869.
  • Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

    Intentions "The Critic as Artist" pt. 2 (1891)
  • Actually think anybody ever approaches writing any song, I think the song approaches them, truth be told. Usually what happens is that a song arrives and afterwards you say that "I wrote the song," and it's not actually true; they find you, they write themselves.

    Song   Writing   Thinking  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.

  • The truth is always the strongest argument.

    "Phædra". Play by Sophocles, Fragment 737,
  • People fear the unforeseen and the unseen. Truth be told we all fear the unseen.

  • I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off.

    Cutting   Men   Truth Is  
    George R. R. Martin (2003). “A Storm of Swords: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Three”, p.99, Bantam
  • Truth be told, our modern education systems crush the very spirit they claim to instill.

    Matthew Kelly (2015). “The Rhythm of Life: Living Everyday With Passion and Purpose”, p.94, BookBaby
  • If lyrics sold then truth be told/I'd probably be just as rich and famous as Jay-Z.

    Song: Ghetto Show
  • When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

    "American Speaker : Your Guide to Successful Speaking". Book by Aram Bakshian, 1992.
  • As a teacher of fourth-graders in a public school, where corporal punishement was not allowed, she had years of violence stored up and was, truth be told, sort of enjoying letting it out on Kona, who she felt could have been the poster child for the failure of public education.

  • When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.

    Trust   Courage   Truth  
  • If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

    Mark Twain (2010). “Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review”, p.43, Univ of Wisconsin Press
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