Truth Quotes

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

40912 quotes

J
"Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion."
Jane Eyre
A
"Be true! Be true! Be true!"
Arthur Dimmesdale
C
"I am perfectly convinced by it that Mr. Darcy has not the smallest concern with that affair."
Charlotte Lucas
M
"I have nothing to say to you that you will not hear with some concern."
Mr. Darcy
E
"I am now convinced that I have been wrong."
Elizabeth Bennet
N
"You see, Mr. Lockwood, in this world of ours there is no such thing as a free gift"
Nelly Dean
N
"Honest people don't hide their deeds"
Nelly Dean
P
"In that one moment I saw clearly what I had been denying"
Pip
J
"I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh."
Jane Eyre
J
"You are human and fallible."
Jane Eyre
A
"Sin is left alone."
Arthur Dimmesdale
R
"Evil has been with me from my youth."
Roger Chillingworth
A
"Happy are you, Hester, that wear the scarlet letter openly upon your bosom!"
Arthur Dimmesdale
H
"I am not of that order."
Hester Prynne
E
"The more I see of the world, the more I am dissatisfied with it."
Elizabeth Bennet
M
"You are too generous to trifle with me."
Mr. Darcy
E
"Nothing can clear Mr. Wickham's character in my eyes."
Elizabeth Bennet
E
"I have nothing to say for him. His conduct to myself has been scandalous."
Elizabeth Bennet
M
"I have paid you no compliment. I have simply stated the truth."
Mr. Darcy
J
"I am not an angel, and I will not pretend to be one."
Jane Eyre
H
"I seek the truth and find only lies."
Heathcliff
C
"Some people might think it a strange thing for a girl to say, but it is true."
Cathy Linton
P
"It is a bitter thing to see who you truly are."
Pip
E
"I am perfectly convinced by it that Mr. Darcy has not the smallest concern with Mr. Wickham's leaving Brighton."
Elizabeth Bennet
J
"A lie repeated becomes a prison of one's own making."
Javert
J
"Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion."
Jane Eyre
P
"The truth about my benefactor shattered all my illusions."
Pip
J
"The supreme court of conscience is within oneself."
Jean Valjean
M
"I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle."
Mr. Darcy
J
"I am no angel, and I will not pretend to be one."
Jane Eyre