Truth Quotes
What is truth? These quotes explore honesty, reality, and the courage it takes to face both.
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"I am not wicked; I only dislike some people."Heathcliff
"A hand may pass between this and the best of us"Sydney Carton
"You must not expect me to be anything other than what I am."Estella
"The truth will eventually reveal itself."Great-Expectations Jaggers
"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."Lord Henry Wotton
"Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face."Basil Hallward
"I am not what I seem. Really I am a very sad person."Dorian Gray
"I wish you would tell me that you are wicked, Harry."Dorian Gray
"I do not pretend to possess equal frankness with you."Mr. Darcy
"The mask! the mask!"Starbuck
"Strike through the mask!"Captain Ahab
"Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion."Jane Eyre
"Be true! Be true! Be true!"Arthur Dimmesdale
"My sin and my shame—let the multitude know it!"Hester Prynne
"Remorse is the poison of life."Pip
"I must be taken as I have been made."Estella
"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."Lord Henry Wotton
"Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face."Dorian Gray
"She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me."Mr. Darcy
"Perhaps I was too much occupied by my own feelings to do him justice."Elizabeth Bennet
"You could not have made me the offer of your hand in any possible way that would have tempted me to accept it."Elizabeth Bennet
"I was a child; I had not sense to resist you."Heathcliff
"You teach me now how cruel you've been—cruel and false."Cathy Linton
"I have not one word of comfort—you deserve none."Nelly Dean
"Be true! Be true! Be true!"Arthur Dimmesdale
"I have already told thee what I am! A fiend!"Roger Chillingworth
"Now I know thy secret!"Roger Chillingworth
"Show them a token!"Pearl
"We have wronged each other"Hester Prynne
"I would rather be a slave and earn my bread honestly, than to be part of the systematic injustice."Jane Eyre