Favourite Quote by William Wordsworth

“It only too often yields to the temptation to become sycophantic, opportunist and lying, like a politician who sees the truth but wants to…

— Sigmund Freud

A statesman is an easy man, he tells his lies by rote. A journalist invents his lies, and rams them down your throat. So…

— William Butler Yeats

“Or how it feels to be more important than kings and queens, than presidents or prime ministers or heroes, to be sure of it,…

— Neil Gaiman

Those who misrepresent the normal experiences of life, who decry being controversial, who shun risk, are the enemies of the American way of life,…

— Henry Wriston

In wartime we provide truth with a bodyguard of lies because it is so precious.

— Adolf Hitler

Not the least misfortune in a prominent falsehood is the fact that tradition is apt to repeat it for truth.

— Hosea Ballou

“Were all the geniuses of history to focus on this single theme, they could never fully express their bafflement at the darkness of the…

— Seneca

The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast…

— John F. Kennedy

“For the sorry truth is that in this most pragmatic land, the purist is generally his own worst enemy.”

— Harry Stein

As many truths as men. Occasionally, I glimpse a truer Truth, hiding in imperfect simulacrums of itself, but as I approach, it bestirs itself…

— David Mitchell

“Unfortunately we live in a country that is so rich at the moment that the politicians compete with each other to be the most…

— Jo Nesbø

“In any case, in the world of politics you can ill afford luxuries such as a clear conscience!”

— Ashwin Sanghi