“Atticus sometimes said that one way to tell whether a witness was lying or telling the truth was to listen rather than watch.”

“Bishop: No verifying! If people tell lies, that's as may be. If they've come up with some credo or other, so much the better! Don't forget that few people are likely to tell more than a small part of the truth: no one tells much of the truth, let alone the whole truth. Spoken words are facts in themselves, whether true or false. When people talk they reveal themselves, whether they're lying or telling the truth. Embi: And if I find them out in a lie? Bishop: Never speak ill of anyone in a report. Remember, any lie you are told, even deliberately, is often a more significant fact than a truth told in all sincerity.”

“[Literature is] the best way of telling the truth; it’s a process of producing grand, beautiful, well-ordered lies that tell more truth than any assemblage of facts.”

“It is worse for a liar to tell the truth than for a lover of truth to lie.”

“There's more than one way to tell each other things, and there's more than one way to listen, too.”

“Sometimes you have to lie. But to yourself you must always tell the truth.”