Truth Quotes

What is truth? These quotes explore honesty, reality, and the courage it takes to face both.

40912 quotes

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