Truth Quotes

"The truth was that Jay Gatsby, of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself."

"She was capable of any deception, yet incapable of any true understanding."

"Desire is the only honest thing in human nature."

"I'm five years too old to lie to myself and call it honor."

"In matters of conscience, one must follow one's inner voice."

"The greatest lie is the one we tell ourselves."

"What matters is, that I've managed to convince myself."

"As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life."

"The things that happen to people we know are real."

"I maintain that the Ewells started it all, but Jem, who was four years my senior, said it started long before that."

"That jury didn't come in here with right intentions."

"The truth shall set you free."

"The world, after all, is but a collection of follies."

"Her sorrows were real; her joys were invented."

"She had lived a lie that destroyed her."

"I have been living a lie."

"The truth will set you free."

"Conduct may be founded on the hard rock or the wet marshes, but after a certain point I don't care what it's founded on."

"Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply."

"I've heard it said that Daisy's murmur was only an act, but there was an overtone of nervousness in it."

"A man can't always be sure about his past."

"I felt the fundamental decencies are parceled out unequally at birth."

"What does it matter? The truth will come out anyway"

"Truth demands a terrible price"

"Conscience is God present in man."

"Words are inadequate to express what lies in the heart."

"Words are the shadows of reality."

"How often do our actions betray our intentions?"

"Truth is often hidden beneath layers of self-deception."

"The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience."