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