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