“Any simpleton can speak with confidence. Sometimes the greatest fools have the most bravado.”
Brandon Mull (1974) American fiction writer
Source: Keys to the Demon Prison
“Sometimes the most ruthless heart speaks the most truth”
— Cassandra Clare, book Lord of Shadows
Source: Lord of Shadows
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“There is a saying among children, that 'Sometimes one is hanged for speaking the truth.'"”
Joan of Arc (1412–1431) French folk heroine and Roman Catholic saint
Trial records (1431) <br class="br">Context: The light comes at the same time as the Voice. … I will not tell you all; I have not leave; my oath does not touch on that. My Voice is good and to be honored. I am not bound to answer you about it. I request that the points on which I do not now answer may be given me in writing. … You shall not know yet. There is a saying among children, that 'Sometimes one is hanged for speaking the truth.'" [She is asked : Do you know if you are in the grace of God? ] If I am not, may God place me there; if I am, may God so keep me. I should be the saddest in all the world if I knew that I were not in the grace of God. But if I were in a state of sin, do you think the Voice would come to me? I would that every one could hear the Voice as I hear it.<br><br> Third public examination (24 February 1431) http://www.stjoan-center.com/Trials/sec03.html; part of this testimony has sometimes been paraphrased: If I am not in the state of grace, may God put me there; and if I am, may God so keep me.
“Who speaks the truth stabs Falsehood to the heart.”
James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) American poet, critic, editor, and diplomat
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“Sometimes the most preposterous lies are the most believable.”
Brandon Mull (1974) American fiction writer
Source: Rise of the Evening Star