Deceit Quote by Robert Browning

“There is not a single untruth, no -but after ten lines Truth shrieks, she runs distraught and disheveled through her temple's corridors; she does…

— Thornton Wilder

“Let her [Truth] and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter? Her confuting is the…

— John Milton

A gritty grain of truth lay at the heart of most legends, she had told me, and the slow accretion of fiction hardened in…

— Caroline Llewellyn

“The lessons she'd been forced to learn were dry spare things, the facts without the sense of them, given in the simplest of language,…

— Robin McKinley

“Truth is great and will prevail if left to herself, that she is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to…

— Thomas Jefferson

“Though all winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing…

— John Milton

Truth never turns to rebuke falsehood; her own straightforwardness is the severest correction.

— Henry David Thoreau

Truth is not always in a well. In fact, as regards the more important knowledge, I do believe that she is invariably superficial. The…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“That is why she cannot be regarded as lying; for she does not presume that she knows the truth, and therefore she cannot be…

— Harry G. Frankfurt

Novels must have verisimilitude, and truth has little enough of that.

— Louis Auchincloss

Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless, by human interposition, disarmed of her…

— Thomas Jefferson

“Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?”

— John Milton