Agatha Christie Quotes

Sometimes I think I've been too honest, and other times, too explicit.

I don't debate with liars.

In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

I do believe that the truth gets out.

He who is dishonest with respect to speech, is dishonest in everything.

I admit that I have more truth than eloquence.

Speech was made to open man to man, and not to hide him.

I Want The Truth

When you speak the truth, people realize that.

It is really important to have someone who tells the truth all the time.

I've never understood this idea of not shooting straight with people.

I'm not one for lying to children.

If you're not talking about the truth, I don't even want you around me.

You deliver a message every time you speak. Do you deliver the truth, or do you deliver lies? When the message you deliver comes from truth and love, you are happier.

A man must not always tell all, for that be folly; but what a man says should be what he thinks.

If your words aren't truthful, the finest optically letter-spaced typography won't help.

Being honest doesn't mean you say whatever you want, wherever you want. It means that what you choose to say is true.

Truth is not so threadbare as speech, because fewer people can make use of it.

The aversion to lying is often a hidden ambition to render our words credible and weighty, and to attach a religious aspect to our conversation.

Honesty is one part of eloquence. We persuade others by being in earnest ourselves.

If you're not gonna tell the truth, then why start talking?

Few men have depth enough to hear or tell the truth.

Whatever distrust we may have of the sincerity of those who converse with us, we always believe they will tell us more truth than they do to others.

Veracity does not consist in saying, but in the intention of communicating the truth.

Truth is used to vitalize a statement rather than devitalize it. Truth implies more than a simple statement of fact. "I don't have any whiskey," may be a fact but it is not a truth.