W. Somerset Maugham

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

Why shouldn’t truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.

The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self.

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

There are only two ways of telling the complete truth–anonymously and posthumously.

Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.

The lawyer’s truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.

Lying rides upon debt’s back.

History is strewn thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill, but a lie, well told, is immortal.

Do not be angry with me if I tell you the truth

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

Let them look up in the sky then…! if they must be so blind, that cannot see the truth in broad daylight, but must have the whole world in darkness to see the conceit of the stars…

To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.

Tell me anyway–Maybe I can find the truth by comparing the lies.

The truth is sometimes a hard pill to swallow. It sometimes causes us difficulties at home and abroad. It is sometimes used by our enemies in attempts to hurt us. But the American people are entitled to it, nonetheless.