Truth Quotes

"I like them to talk nonsense. That's man's one privilege over all creation. Through error you come to the truth! I am a man because I err! You never reach any truth without making fourteen mistakes and very likely a hundred and fourteen." ~ Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth,
When thought is speech, and speech is truth. ~ Marmion by Sir Walter Scott "For truth is truth to the end of reckoning." ~ Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare "Her heart--is given him, with all its love and truth. She would joyfully die with him, or, better than that, die for him. She knows he has failings, but she thinks they have grown up through his being like one cast away, for the want of something to trust in, and care for, and think well of." ~ Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens Unwelcome truths are not popular. ~ The Valley of Fear by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle "The highest form of affection is based on full sincerity on both sides." ~ Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy It is the nature of truth to struggle to the light. ~ Man and Wife by Wilkie Collins Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem. ~ The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham "There is no deception now, Mr. Weller. Tears," said Job, with a look of momentary slyness, "tears are not the only proofs of distress, nor the best ones." ~ The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens "The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!" ~ The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde