Truth, poor child, was nobody's daughter. She took off her clothes and jumped in the water.

The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.

—Dorothy L. Sayers

The worst sin—perhaps the only sin—passion can commit, is to be joyless.

—Dorothy L. Sayers

Books… are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.

—Dorothy L. Sayers

We may argue eloquently that "honesty is the best policy." Unfortunately, the moment honesty is adopted for the sake of policy it mysteriously ceases to be honesty.

—Dorothy L. Sayers

It is always the best policy to speak the truth—unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.

—Jerome K. Jerome

The truth hurts, sometimes, I suppose. But that doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be known.

—Trisha Leigh in Summer Ruins

The truth is, we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless.

—Woodrow Wilson

Justice is truth in action.

—Benjamin Disraeli

America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is probably equally true.

—James T. Farrell