Witness Quotes

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

– Harper Lee

To Kill a Mockingbird, Chapter 19. Atticus’s lie detector test in court, according to Scout.

My witness is the empty sky.

– Jack Kerouac

Please call your second witness, and then call your mother, she worries.

– Colin Mochrie

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.

– The Bible

Acts 1:8

When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

– Ausonius

Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of a witness.

– Margaret Millar

A writer’s work is to witness things.

– Edward Hoagland

You witness a lot as a journalist, and what you witness becomes a part of you.

– Francisco Goldman

As writers, it is our job not only to imagine, but to witness.

– Dani Shapiro

I’m a Jehovah’s Witness.

– Prince

Then all the people who were at the gate and the elders said, We are witnesses. May the Lord make the woman, who is coming into your house, like Rachel and Leah, who together built up the house of Israel.

– The Bible

Ruth 4:11

Answerest thou nothing? Behold how many things they witness against thee.

– Pontius Pilate

Hearest thou not how many things they witness against thee?

– Pontius Pilate

One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace.

– Jean Giraudoux

I was not inside the bank. But I am still not the only witness.

– Patty Hearst

The entire world is a witness to the phenomenon that sorrows keep away from the kindhearted and compassionate.

– Thiruvalluvar

Quality-of-life policing is based on probable cause – an officer has witnessed a crime personally or has a witness to the crime.

– William Bratton

Billing and cooing to me is worse to witness an execution.

– William Hamilton Maxwell