Within every elaborate lie, a kernel of truth.

I believe that there is an important kernel of truth in the idea that financial errors recur every other generation.

— James Grant

“There’s a kernel of truth in every lie.”

— Timothy M. Burke

“In many ways, likability is a very elaborate lie, a performance, a code of conduct dictating the proper way to be.”

— Roxane Gay

“By the time the arachne caught up with them in Kejesli’s quarters, Maggy found layli-layli calulan in the midst of an elaborate lie. Like…

— Janet Kagan

Every decent con man knows that the simplest truth is more powerful than even the most elaborate lie.

— Ally Carter

In summary, the Romans were opposed to tyranny in any form; and the feature of government to which they gave the most thought was…

— Anonymous

At the time, my personal research objectives were to provide Keynesian economics with more rigorous foundations and to tighten and elaborate the logic of…

— James Tobin

My dog has the intellectual capacity of a lime wedge, yet even he possesses an elaborate set of assumptions, based on his ability to…

— Martha Beck

We routinely participate in elaborate nonverbal exchanges even when we are not consciously aware of doing so.

— Leonard Mlodinow

There can be no defense like elaborate courtesy.

— Anonymous

Structure that really pays off is all based on emotion. I don't write down an elaborate plan. It's really done by feel. It's one…

— Graham Swift

“But what was it in himself he needed to look at so much that he'd invented this elaborate scenario?”

— Allan G. Hunter

I hope that if you are employed full-time, you are doing it to ensure that basic needs are met and not simply to indulge…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.

— Anonymous

“Would you care to elaborate?”

— Anonymous