Jean Cocteau Quotes About Lying

Quotes about: Lying

• History is a combination of reality and lies. The reality of History becomes a lie. The unreality of the fable becomes the truth.

  Jean Cocteau

  Lying, Reality, Fables

  Journal d'un inconnu (Diary of an Unknown Man, 1953) p. 143

• Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort.

  Jean Cocteau

  Lying, Mean, Men

  "On Invisibility". "Diary of an Unknown". Book by Jean Cocteau, 1953.

• The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.

  Jean Cocteau

  Liars, Lying, Poetry

• Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.

  Jean Cocteau

  Art, Lying, Reality

• What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end.

  Jean Cocteau

  Lying, History, Facts

  The Observer, September 22, 1957.

• People seek escape in myth by any means at their disposal, including drugs, alcohol, meditation, and lies.

  Jean Cocteau

  Lying, Mean, People

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