Truth Quotes

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

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"God made me a sincere nature; I cannot change it."
Jane Eyre
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"I am a plain man, but I say what I mean."
Mr. Rochester
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"The unqualified truth is the only foundation for virtue"
Pip
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"Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence"
Great-Expectations Jaggers
G
"There is nothing that can be said or done here that will heal it"
Great-Expectations Jaggers
I
"Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian"
Ishmael
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"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."
Lord Henry Wotton
L
"How sad it is that one has to conceal all the fascinating things one thinks."
Lord Henry Wotton
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"If he had done these things, he himself, bit by bit, and day by day, the true nature of the acting would have been revealed."
The Narrator
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"I am perfectly convinced by it that Mr. Darcy has no defect in his character."
Elizabeth Bennet
E
"You cannot seriously mean to persuade me that you have long been wishing his connection."
Elizabeth Bennet
E
"Disguise of every sort is my abhorrence."
Elizabeth Bennet
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"He cannot accuse me of having done anything to forfeit his regard."
Catherine Earnshaw
C
"I know I'm doing wrong—I know it as well as you do."
Catherine Earnshaw
A
"Be true! Be true! Be true!"
Arthur Dimmesdale
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"Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion"
Jane Eyre
M
"The world may think me a good man; but I am a castaway"
Mr. Rochester
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"I am perfectly serious in my refusal."
Elizabeth Bennet
P
"Once for all; I knew to be true."
Pip
P
"There was no truth or steadiness in anything."
Pip
P
"I became aware that I was losing myself in illusions."
Pip
P
"The truth, however painful, is always better than illusion."
Pip
C
"I have not the power to tell you all that I have in my heart"
Charles Darnay
L
"Being natural is simply a pose, and the most irritating pose I know."
Lord Henry Wotton
L
"The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past."
Lord Henry Wotton
L
"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."
Lord Henry Wotton
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"It is what you are that matters, not what you look like."
Basil Hallward
B
"Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed."
Basil Hallward
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"I am not an angel, and I will not pretend to be one."
Jane Eyre
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"He saw me as I truly was, not as I appeared."
Jane Eyre