Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) British poet laureate
" The Grandmother http://www.poetryconnection.net/poets/Alfred_Lord_Tennyson/14415", st. 8 (1864)
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) British poet laureate
" The Grandmother http://www.poetryconnection.net/poets/Alfred_Lord_Tennyson/14415", st. 8 (1864)
“Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945) 32nd President of the United States
Radio address (26 October 1939), as reported in The Baltimore Sun (27 October 1939)
1930s
Alphonse Daudet book Tartarin of Tarascon
L'homme du Midi ne ment pas, il se trompe. Il ne dit pas toujours la vérité, mais il croit la dire.
Source: Tartarin de Tarascon (1872), P. 40; translation p. 17.
“Listen to the Chair Leg of Truth! It does not lie!”
Warren Ellis (1968) English comics and fiction writer
Source: Transmetropolitan, Vol. 9: The Cure
“Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of regard.”
Stephen King book The Gunslinger
Variant: Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
Source: The Gunslinger
“Socialism is founded on a lie -- the premise that man knows more than he in fact does know.”
Leonard E. Read (1898–1983) American academic
Leonard Read Journals, September 18, 1959 https://history.fee.org/leonard-read-journal/1959/leonard-e-read-journal-september-1959
“Which is better, truth that is a lie or the lie that is truth?”
Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor
Source: The Judges
Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer
Source: 1920s, "Picasso Speaks" (1923), p. 315.
Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica
Source: The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 4: 1944-1947