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As humans, we have invented lots of useful kinds of lie. As well as lies-to-children ('as much as they can understand') there are lies-to-bosses ('as ...more

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WHO KNOWS WHAT EVIL LURKS IN THE HEART OF MEN?The Death of Rats looked up from the feast of the potato. SQUEAK, he said.Death waved a hand dismissivel...more

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The public thinks big, sensible, measured thoughts while people run around doing silly things

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There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those who, when presented with a glass that is exactly half full, say: this g...more

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A lie can run round the world before the truth has got its boots on.

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Then Tak looked upon the stone and it was trying to come alive, and Tak smiled, and wrote All things strive.And for the service the stone had given, h...more

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You’d better tell me what you know, toad,” said Tiffany. “Miss Tick isn’t here. I am.”“Another world is colliding with this one,” said the toad. “Ther...more

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Tiffany was on the whole quite a truthful person, but it seemed to her that there were times when things didn’t divide easily into ‘true’ and ‘false’,...more

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I told her we were going to get married, and all she could talk about was frogs.She said there's these hills where it's hot and rains all the time, an...more

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Your own brain ought to have the decency to be on your side!

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Progress just means bad things happen faster.

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It is true that words have power, and one of the things they are able to do is get out of someone's mouth before the speaker has the chance to stop th...more

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This is Art holding a Mirror up to Life. That’s why everything is exactly the wrong way around.

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Destiny was funny stuff, he knew. You couldn’t trust it. Often you couldn’t even see it. Just when you knew you had it cornered, it turned out to be s...more

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THERE IS NO JUSTICE" said Death "JUST ME