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Truth Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- 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 truth is never pure and rarely simple.
- It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never quarrel with actions.…
- There are times when sorrow seems to me to be the only truth.
- I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse.
- Early in life she had discovered the important truth that nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion; and by a series of reckless escapades,…
- The truth about the life of a man is not what he does, but the legend which he creates around himself.
- Every thing to be true must become a religion.
- And, by the way, one of the most delightful things I find in America is meeting a people without prejudice -- everywhere open to the…
- Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
- One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.
- My dear fellow, the truth isn’t quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl. What extraordinary ideas you have about…
- If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.
- Truth is independent of facts always.
- We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
- It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and…
- It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things.
- A truth ceases to be true when more than one person believes in it.
- If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.
- Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.
- Gwendolen, it is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth.…
- Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.
- Give a man a mask and he’ll tell you the truth.
- My dear young lady, there was a great deal of truth; I dare say, in what you said, and you looked very pretty while you…
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- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- In 1994, when I went back to Haiti from exile, we established a Commission for Truth and Justice and Reconciliation. I passed… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth. — Aristotle
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold. — Aristotle
- Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. — Matthew Arnold
- Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist. — Mary Kay Ash
- People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. — Isaac Asimov
- A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value. — Isaac Asimov