Truth Quotes

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!

The truth is so easy when everyone agrees who to blame.

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Chuck Palahniuk

Haunted

Truth is much more terrible than fiction.

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The Brothers Grimm

Mirror Queen

During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
(In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.)
(In an age of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.)
(Speaking the Truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act.)

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Lie

— No such that the game works. You should not simply spit out the right answer. You must invent a story about where the ship goes and why.
— Why invent if I know the truth?
— Because the truth is always terrible or tedious.

Shae (Tyrion's mistress)

Sad Quotes

The person is very embarrassed when speaking from his own face. Give him a mask and he will tell you the whole truth.

— Stick with the truth and you can't get hurt. Always been my philosophy.
— You didn't sleep with her, did you?
— God, no. Philosophy is tricky.

Do you understand pain a little now? If you don’t share someone’s pain, you can never understand them. But just because you understand them doesn’t mean you can come to an agreement. That’s the truth.

Pain's conversation with Naruto after the Death Star Technique.

I always tell the truth — even when I lie.

There are time in life when the truth is not black nor white, but a subtle shade of gray.

The further a society drifts from Truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.

"Gwendolen, it is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. Can you forgive me?"
"I can. For I feel that you are sure to change."

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