Thornton Wilder Quotes About Lying

Quotes about: Lying

• There are the stars--doing their old, old crisscross journeys in the sky. Scholars haven't settled the matter yet, but they seem to think there are no living beings out there. Just chalk... or fire. Only this one is straining away, straining away all the time to make something of itself. Strain's so bad that every sixteen hours everybody lies down and gets a rest.

  Thornton Wilder

  Stars, Lying, Journey

  Thornton Wilder (2007). “Thornton Wilder: Collected Plays & Writings on Theater”

• I am my own judge of what truths I shall tell. The truth can do just as much harm as a lie.

  Thornton Wilder

  Lying, Judging, Telling The Truth

• A convention is an agreed-upon falsehood, a permitted lie.

  Thornton Wilder

  Lying, Conventions, Falsehood

  Thornton Wilder (2014). “The Collected Short Plays of Thornton Wilder, Volume T”, p.269, Theatre Communications Group

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