Truth Quotes
What is truth? These quotes explore honesty, reality, and the courage it takes to face both.
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"I simply feel that this cannot be right."Anna Karenina
"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
"Be true! Be true! Be true!"Arthur Dimmesdale
"I am not, nor ever was, the husband of this woman."Roger Chillingworth
"I feel no love, nor feigned love, for this woman!"Arthur Dimmesdale
"A secret sin is half-understood."Porfiry Petrovich
"The weight of secrets destroys the bearer."Villefort
"I have lived, and I have done wrong."Anna Karenina
"Everything I have thought and felt has been false."Anna Karenina
"The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable."Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
"The truth is that I am certainly a scoundrel"Raskolnikov
"A lie is more comfortable than the truth"Raskolnikov
"Fair words make me not a merchant."Sancho Panza
"Truth and honesty are the foundation of all virtue."Don Quixote
"I have not the pleasure of understanding you."Mr. Darcy
"You could not have made me the offer of your hand in any possible way that would have tempted me to accept it."Elizabeth Bennet
"Be true! Be true! Be true!"Arthur Dimmesdale
"Behold, I stand upon the scaffold of the pillory, and beside me is the woman of the scarlet letter"Arthur Dimmesdale
"In moments of weakness, we reveal our true nature."Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
"We deceive ourselves more than others deceive us."Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
"Sincerity is the shortest distance between two people."Edmond Dantès
"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold secret."Edmond Dantès
"Truth needs no ornament of words to make it acceptable."Don Quixote
"A lie has no legs to run on, but truth has wings to fly."Sancho Panza
"A woman's reputation, once lost, cannot be recovered."Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
"Truth is often more painful than comfortable lies."Dolly Oblonskaya
"It ought not to be done; but it has been."Mr. Bennet
"Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility."Mr. Darcy
"I am convinced that one of you must have been acting so as to expose the other."Mr. Bennet
"Man grows accustomed to everything, the scoundrel!"Marmeladov