Truth Quote by Olivia Manning Download Open image ““an age of chivalry as outmoded as honour, as obsolete as truth.”” — Olivia Manning ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Truth
Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
“[C. S. Lewis] showed me that newness is no virtue and oldness is no vice. Truth and beauty and goodness are not determined by… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“The kind of truth that can be asserted by argument had lost all glamour, all lustre, for him, seeming no more now than another… — Barry Unsworth Copy Share Image
“It's not a love of the old as such. It's simply that the process of aging or deterioration provides the necessary detachment - or… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“While many may claim that these virtues are old-fashioned, they are essential materials for building a solid and worthwhile foundation for your life that… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
“What seems strained - a mere triumph of perverse ingenuity - to one age, seems plain and obvious to another, so that our ancestors would often wonder how we could possibly miss what we wonder how they could have been silly-clever enough to find. And between different ages there is not impartial judge on earth, for no one stands outside… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share
“Let us not, in the pride of our superior knowledge, turn with contempt from the follies of our predecessors. The study of the errors… — Charles MacKay Copy Share Image
“There is no way to deter old age from its grim duty, but a life of accomplishments makes up in quality for what it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A life is no less valuable or beloved if one lives in an age of decline, than in an age of progress.” — Mathew Barrett Gross Copy Share Image
“Looking at Sophie's well developed bosom, Harriet felt at a disadvantage. Perhaps Sophie's shape would not last. but it was enviable while it lasted.” — Olivia Manning Copy Share Image
“A man is made by his circumstances", said Guy. "If you want to change him, you must change his circumstances.” — Olivia Manning Copy Share Image
“Was there any more repellent sight, Harriet wondered, than a silly, self-centred, greedy woman clad in the skin of a beast so much more… — Olivia Manning Copy Share Image
“... freedom is the knowledge of necessity and there is no wealth but life. When you understand that you understand everything.” — Olivia Manning Copy Share Image
“A man is made by his circumstances... If you want to change him, change his circumstances.” — Olivia Manning Copy Share Image
“Together they owned the large, flamboyant Doctor Beltado. They might ignore him, they might even despise him, but no one else was going to… — Olivia Manning Copy Share Image
The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new;… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
High school sucked. It was a universal truth, and whoever said these were supposed to be the best years of your life was probably… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
“Narrative cannot sustain formlessness any more than light can sustain darkness - it is the antithesis of formlessness, and so it can never truly… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I could program a 'fabulous, I love it' kind of hit season right now. I'm more interested in breaking boundaries, telling a story, defying… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
How could anybody confuse truth with beauty, I thought as I looked at him. Truth came with sunken eyes, bony or scarred, decayed. Its… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I always believed that photography was subjective, interpretive and certainly did not represent the truth, but I did think that its status as a… — Fred Ritchin Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The greatest act of courage is to be and to ownall of who you are—without apology, without excuses, without masks to cover the truth… — Debbie Ford Copy Share Image
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