True One Quotes
52 quotes by 48 authors
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It's true: one of the things that I've always thought about American society is that you never get the sort of natural politicisation of class…
— Peter Carey
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What is the use of straining after an amiable view of things, when a cynical view is most likely to be the true one?.
— George Bernard Shaw
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In my early years I read very hard. It is a sad reflection, but a true one, that I knew almost as much at eighteen…
— Samuel Johnson
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To do well those thing which God ordained to be the common lot of all man-kind, is the truest greatness. To be a successful father…
— Joseph Fielding Smith
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In any war story, but especially a true one, it's difficult to separate what happened from what seemed to happen. What seems to happen becomes…
— Tim O'Brien
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Friend is a very small word, A little sound we make, For one who is true, one who will do, Great deeds for friendship's sake.
— Brian Jacques
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And above all, you must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best by its paint and panelling…the question should…
— C.S. Lewis
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There is a fallacy that the powerful emotion of youth mellows with time. Not true. One learns to control and suppress it. But it doesn't…
— Nicole Krauss
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I've heard fate talked of. It's not a word I use. I think we make our own choices. I think how we live our lives…
— Susan Fletcher
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It's a saying they have, that a man has a false heart in his mouth for the world to see, another in his breast to…
— James Clavell
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it is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary.' 'A melancholy conclusion,' said K. 'It turns lying into…
— Franz Kafka
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I know you have bad news,†I say softly. “I’m ready for it.†But that’s not true. One is never ready. You just lie and…
— Ann Aguirre
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A man does not need to be a wizard to know truth from falsehood, not if he has eyes. You need only learn to read…
— George R. R. Martin
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It is not enough to recognize what is right and true. One must control the impulse to do what is wrong and easy.
— Andy Andrews
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I do not know why there is this difference, but I am sure that God keeps no one waiting unless He sees that it is…
— C.S. Lewis
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But in spite of my great desire for intimacy, I've always been a loner. Perhaps when the longing for connection is as strong as it…
— Elizabeth Berg
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Any child knows that history can only be a reduced representation of reality, but it must be a true one, not distorted by queer lenses.
— Samuel E. Morison
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I perceived that to express those impressions, to write that essential book, which is the only true one, a great writer does not, in the…
— Marcel Proust
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I want a hero: an uncommon want, When every year and month sends forth a new one, Till, after cloying the gazettes with cant, The…
— Lord Byron
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In search of a perfect person, dont lose a true one bcoz perfection is fantasy while truth is a reality
— Hussein Nishah
Who Wrote These True One Quotes
48 authors contributed a total of 52 True One Quotes, led by these top contributors: