Truth Quotes

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

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"I stand upon the scaffold of infamy!—yet better to stand here, than in thy unconfessed guilt!"
Arthur Dimmesdale
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"The truth had finally been revealed to me."
Pip
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"Nothing that we have done can be undone; we are prisoners of our past."
Charles Darnay
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"Keep my secret, and know me to be innocent."
Sydney Carton
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"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."
Lord Henry Wotton
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"Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion."
Jane Eyre
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"I am not an angel, and I will not pretend to be."
Jane Eyre
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"I would rather not live than live a lie."
Jane Eyre
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"You have insulted me in every possible method."
Elizabeth Bennet
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"What is the reason that you are unwilling to come to a settlement?"
Miss Havisham
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"The secret was mine, and I kept it."
Pip
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"You must know that I am what you see, nothing more and nothing less."
Estella
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"The heart knows what the mind refuses to accept."
Pip
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"Be true! Be true! Be true!"
Arthur Dimmesdale
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"Thou hast kept the secret too well!"
Hester Prynne
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"Keep, therefore, the secret, as thou valuest thy life!"
Hester Prynne
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"Thou canst not take the token away. It is too deeply branded."
Arthur Dimmesdale
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"Thou art not true!"
Pearl
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"The truth, however painful, is always preferable to the most comforting of lies"
The Narrator
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"Being natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up."
Lord Henry Wotton
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"Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face."
Dorian Gray
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"The unqualified truth is, that when every channel in this great system by which we are connected becomes a channel of misery."
Pip
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"Whatever I have said or done, has always been against my inclination."
Estella
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"All else is pretence."
Estella
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"Be true! Be true! Be true!"
Arthur Dimmesdale
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"I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh."
Jane Eyre
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"I am perfectly convinced by it that Mr. Darcy has not the smallest concern for that scheme."
Elizabeth Bennet
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"My temper would perhaps be as violent in his case, as it ever was before your were to see it."
Elizabeth Bennet
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"You teach me now how cruel you've been—cruel and false."
Catherine Earnshaw
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"I see myself as I am, not as I wish to be"
Sydney Carton