Truth Quotes

"Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion."

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

"I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh."

"The world may judge me harshly, but I must follow my truth."

"The truth is, I do not wish to be happy."

"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."

"If one doesn't talk about a thing, it has never happened."

"Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart."

"I am not one of those young ladies who aim at wit and are all affectation and pretence."

"How despicably I have acted!"

"You see I am nothing canny."

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

"Be true! Be true! Be true!"

"Keep, therefore, the secret, cousin, as thou valuest thy life!"

"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."

"My dear boy, the truth isn't quite so simple."

"I am not cruel, only truthful."

"The heart knows what the mind refuses to accept."

"Perhaps I was unconscious of doing wrong."

"The fact is, that you were sick of civility, of deference, of officious attention."

"It struck me that she was with child, and that accounted for much."

"Strike through the mask! That is the key!"

"The mask! The mask!"

"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."

"The time for truth has come at last"

"Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion."

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

"I am not cunning; I am not a hypocrite."

"This woman's scarlet letter may open a dungeon where an angel sits imprisoned."

"Every moment, while thou hidest thyself, is a lie!"