“My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.”
George Bernard Shaw John Bull's Other Island
Act II
Source: 1900s, John Bull's Other Island (1907)
“The world is not the way they tell you it is.”
Source: The Money Game (1968), Chapter 1, Why Did The master Say "Game"?, p. 3
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“My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world.”
Muhammad Ali (1942–2016) African American boxer, philanthropist and activist
This is actually from Ali's autobiography "The Greatest". However, this was said by Don King to George Foreman.
Misattributed
“The face you give the world tells the world how to treat you.”
Gillian Flynn book Sharp Objects
Source: Sharp Objects
Kosmos interview on grief, Dark Optimism, aliveness and activism (2014) http://www.darkoptimism.org/2014/12/21/dark-optimism-power-of-grief/#post-4075
“In a myriad of ways you tell one truth.”
Dejan Stojanovic (1959) poet, writer, and businessman
"The Bell of the Shape," p. 35
The Shape (2000), Sequence: “Bells”
Robert A. Heinlein book Stranger in a Strange Land
Variant: I do know that the slickest way to lie is to tell the right amount of truth--then shut up.
Source: Stranger in a Strange Land
Jonathan Van Ness (1987) American hairstylist and television personality
page 173
Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love (2019)
“You have to be a bit of a liar to tell a story the right way.”
Patrick Rothfuss book The Name of the Wind
Source: The Name of the Wind