Andre Malraux Quotes

The truth of a man is first and foremost what he hides.

While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive.

It is often wise to reveal that which cannot be concealed for long.

I couldn't lie to get myself fame and fortune.

Bruce always had to tell a lie. He was always living that lie. Caitlyn doesn't have any secrets.

The lies we live will always be confessed in the stories that we tell.

Why would anyone lie? The truth is always more colorful.

I'm a really bad liar.

Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.

A man had rather a hundred lies told of him than one truth which he does not wish to be told.

As an actor, you want to know if you're keeping a secret or telling the truth.

Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death. I can work out a good character much faster than anyone can lie me out of it

Fire is to represent truth because it destroys all sophistry and lies; and the mask is for lying and falsehood which conceal truth.

Grace is always natural, though that does not prevent its being often used to hide a lie.

Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not often hidden — only ugliness and deformity.

Meet me in Cognito, baby. In Cognito, we'll have nothing to hide.

Petra turned to her. "Everybody lies about who they are. Name one person here who isn't doing that and I will drop out right now!" Shanti felt that snake of truth coil around her legs, threatening to squeeze. "I didn't mean..." "No one ever does." Petra said, shoving the baton back at Shanti.

The truth is the last thing that matters,' she said. 'And you can believe one thing of the truth and me: I keep it well hidden, inside my heart.

I am sorry I didn’t tell you the truth before. I was hoping I wouldn’t have to. You kept asking about Romeo and what he was really like. I was hoping that”—he smiled wistfully—“you would recognize me.

A person I knew used to divide human beings into three categories: those who prefer to have nothing to hide rather than being obliged to lie, those who prefer lying to having nothing to hide, and finally those who like both lying and the hidden.

Within every elaborate lie, a kernel of truth.

Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.

I would start drinking something terrible if I were in a situation where I was surrounded by lies or quiet or secrets. It's just not a real life.

So this was how secrets got started, I thought to myself. People constructed them little by little.

Inside everybody's hiding something.