Truth Quotes

"They don't want to hear it, he said."

"I'm the enemy, Yossarian said to himself."

"Man is not always capable of bearing the truth."

"Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery"

"The greater the distance from a world that makes sense, the more it will cost in trauma"

"I loathe their love. I despise their satisfaction"

"The Party said that Oceania had never been in alliance with Eurasia. He, Winston Smith, knew that Oceania had been in alliance with Eurasia as recently as four years ago."

"I really do. That's the thing about me. I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life."

"Phoniness is the greatest plague of our time."

"I been meaning to ask you about that—about Lennie"

"They didn't none of them want him hurt"

"It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they do what you want them to."

"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is what a madman I am."

"I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life."

"It's a phony world out there, I'm not kidding."

"Pencey Prep really is a phony place."

"Life everywhere is the same. Everybody struggles, cheats, abandons, betrays; men are always failing one another."

"Life has taught me that truth is the highest virtue."

"The truth is like a god. It is the greatest good we can have"

"It really does."

"That's very true."

"The real problem is here."

"There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad."

"I really do. That's the thing about me. I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life."

"It really does. I'm not kidding."

"I really do. That's the thing about me. I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw."

"If you want to know the truth, I don't even know what I think."

"Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning; truth and beauty can't."

"A lot of men would be unhappy if they were deprived of the cesspool sludge."

"Conscience is our supreme judge."