History Quote by Patrick Rothfuss

“Sometimes, there is only a thin line between diplomacy and a lie.”

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

“A historian who would convey the truth must lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader would not be able…

— Mark Twain

“You see, a truth parted with has its own way of becoming a tale. It is told so often that it stumbles in the…

— Roshani Chokshi

“History is written by the victorious, the liars, the strongest, the most determined.”

— Kate Mosse

“What is the nature of the border between truth and lies? It is permeable and blurred because it is planted thick with rumour, confabulation,…

— Hilary Mantel

“There's a part of a book that never lies. A writer puts his soul into a book. Every word is two sides of a…

— Sam Mills Black Out

“When you slice the truth too thin, you deceive.”

— Eileen Wilks

“A lie can travel half way 'round the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes.”

— Alex Flinn

“And truth is malleable, something to be bent or stretched or made to disappear, but direct lies always find the path back to the…

— Karen Abbott

“Representatives of truth. The champions of truth are hardest to find, not when it is dangerous to tell it, but rather when it is…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Distinguish clearly truth from lies and fact from fiction.”

— Steven Redhead

“The shortest distance between truth and a human being is a story.”

— Anthony de Mello