Quotes and sayings about tag  truth

421 Quotes

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

George Washington

I was very afraid at the beginning, until Master told me that pain isn't the truth; it's what you have to get through in order to find the truth.

Deepak Chopra

I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.

Georges Bataille

All children mythologise their birth. It is a universal trait. You want to know someone? Heart, mind and soul? Ask him to tell you about when he was born. What you get won’t be the truth: it will be a story. And nothing is more telling than a story.

Diane Setterfield

A good man is as strong as the right woman needs him to be.

Gregory David Roberts

There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.

Doris Lessing

The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.

H.G. Wells

Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.

Dorothy Allison

Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it.

H.L. Mencken

Don't worry about being effective. Just concentrate on being faithful to the truth.

Dorothy Day

Facts are like cows. If you look them in the face long enough, they generally run away.

Dorothy L. Sayers

If I had a shiny gun I could have a world of fun Speeding bullets through the brains Of the folks that cause me pains :)

Dorothy Parker

Don’t talk like that, Dill, said Aunt Alexandra. It’s not becoming to a child. It’s – cynical.I ain’t cynical, Miss Alexandra. Tellin’ the truth’s not cynical, is it?The way you tell it, it is.

Harper Lee

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

Douglas Adams

You don't fall in love with someone because it's convenient.

Harriet Evans

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