Human nature Quote by Jo Nesbø

What I warn you to remember is that I am a detective. Our relationship with truth is fundamental but cracked, refracting confusingly like fragmented…

— Tana French

If there was one overarching theme to 'True Detective,' I would say it was that, as human beings, we are nothing but the stories…

— Nic Pizzolatto

There is a great deal of hard lying in the world; especially among people whose characters are above suspicion.

— Benjamin Jowett

“I'd like to give these detective story writers a course of routine work. They'd soon learn how most things are untraceable and nobody ever…

— Agatha Christie

I know what kind of things I myself have been irritated by in detective stories. They are often about one or two persons, but…

— Anonymous

Detective stories keep alive a view of the world which ought to be true. Of course people read them for fun ... But underneath…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“It is a tragicomic fact that our proper upbringing has become an ally of the secret police. (...) The "Tell the truth!" imperative drummed…

— Milan Kundera

“Suspicious people should be terrible lie catchers, prone to disbelieving-the-truth”

— Paul Ekman

“Everyone lies. Murderers lie because they have to; witnesses and other participants lie because they think they have to; everyone else lies for the…

— David Simon

“Sometimes a policeman must confront people about lying. No one likes to be called a liar. But it is what it is! A fact…

— Anonymous

“Societies tell themselves necessary fictions in the same way that individuals and families do. Henrik Ibsen called them “vital lies,” and psychologist Daniel Goleman…

— Naomi Wolf

“Even a lie told for a good purpose has a way of perpetuating itself, doesn't it? Look at all the trouble I caused by…

— Jane Steen