Charlotte Bronte Quotes

If you tell a true story, you can't be wrong.

When truth and error have fair play, the former is always an overmatch for the latter.

Truth is so much more interesting than the fiction we're used to.

In nonfiction, you have that limitation, that constraint, of telling the truth.

Fact-checking doesn't exist primarily because some of us are liars and cheats. It exists because writers will be writers, much as they may mean to be historians.

I am someone who values truth - actual truth as opposed to 'truthiness.'

Writers don't have to keep themselves honest. They have to keep themselves accurate.

I haven't exaggerated anything, I've stuck to the facts.

Stick to the truth, avoid exaggeration.

You can't argue with the truth.

I state facts all the time.

When I am giving the relation of a thing, remember to abstain from altering either in the matter or manner of speaking, so much, as that, if every one, afterwards, should alter as much, it would at last come to be properly false.

I try to be honest; I really do try not to exaggerate the story. I try to be accurate.

Truth, also is the pursuit of it.

I would never lie to anyone about history.

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.

People know accuracy when they read it; they can feel it.

I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.

Truth is simply a compliment paid to sentences seen to be paying their way.

Truth is a big concept.

My purpose is to make my narrative as truthful as possible.

Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.

And if that isn't the truth, it would be a lie.

Truth never was indebted to a lie.