Truth Quotes

"Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility."

"The worst and the best are known to you already."

"We are all sinners, Hester. We are all sinners."

"Be true! Be true! Be true!"

"I am not, nor have ever been, otherwise than what you see me."

"Thou knowest—thou hast long known it—that I am no evil man."

"Thou art not evil!—yet I had deemed thee other than this."

"Thou art not far from the truth, though thou speakest wrongly of it."

"You teach me now how cruel you've been—cruel and false."

"All that most maddens and torments; all that stirs up the lees of things; all truth with malice in it."

"If man will strike, strike through the mask!"

"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."

"My dear fellow, the truth isn't quite that flexible."

"I am not an angel, and I will not pretend to be one."

"There is truth in his words that burns me."

"Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?"

"How despicably I have acted!"

"I am sure I owe you a great many apologies."

"Affectation of candour is common enough,—one meets it everywhere."

"You could not have made me the offer of your hand in any possible way that would have tempted me."

"You lie! You are not for me! You are not for any earthly home!"

"Wicked as the devil himself, perhaps—yet not as bad as you suppose."

"There are some things that I must not tell you; but I may make a guess, and so may you."

"It is of the utmost importance that you not tell a soul."

"I must tell you the truth, whatever it costs me."

"The truth, however bitter, is always better than a comforting lie."

"All that most maddens and torments; all that stirs up the lees of things; all truth with malice in it."

"Better shun the world and live alone with honest thoughts than to be surrounded by treacherous schemes."

"Keep, therefore, the secret, as thou keepest thy religion."

"Go forth! and tell the world the truth!"