Famous Quotes & Sayings

Christopher Morley

Be prepared for truth at all hours and in the most fantastic disguises. This is the only safety.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Truth is inclusive of all the virtues, is older than sects and schools, and, like charity, more ancient than mankind.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Truth is sensitive and jealous of the least encroachment upon its sacredness.

Amos Bronson Alcott

There are truths that shield themselves behind veils, and are best spoken by implication. Even the sun veils himself in his own rays to blind the gaze of the too curious starer.

Anthony de Mello

You have within yourself the answer to every question you propose - if you only knew how to look for it. In the Land of the spirit, you cannot walk by the light of someone else's lamp. You want to borrow mine. I'd rather teach you how to make your own.

Anne Sexton

I am stuffing your mouth with your promises and watching you vomit them out upon my face.

Anita Brookner

No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does.

Ambrose Bierce

STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following has, however, not been successfully impeached.

Ambrose Bierce

Truth - An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance.

Ambrose Bierce

REPORTER, n. A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words.

Ambrose Bierce

PLATITUDE, n. The fundamental element and special glory of popular literature. A thought that snores in words that smoke. All that is mortal of a departed truth. A jelly-fish withering on the shore of the sea of thought. A desiccated epigram.

Ambrose Bierce

OBSTINATE, adj. Inaccessible to the truth as it is manifest in the splendor and stress of our advocacy.

Ambrose Bierce

LIAR, n. One who tells an unpleasant truth.

Ambrose Bierce

Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.

Ambrose Bierce

Truth is more deceptive than falsehood, for it is more frequently presented by those from whom we do not expect it, and so has against it a numerical presumption.

Ambrose Bierce

Truth is so good a thing that falsehood can not afford to be without it.

Amy Pascal

The truth is, that what women have to do is not work for less money. They have to walk away.

Ally Carter

It is an occupational hazard that anyone who has spent her life learning how to lie eventually becomes bad at telling the truth.

Allen Tate

Let us begin to understand the argument. There is a solution to everything: Science.

Alison Lurie

If nothing will finally survive of life besides what artists report of it, we have no right to report what we know to be lies.

Ann Coulter

The truth cannot be delivered with novocaine.

Aeschylus

The truth Has to be melted out of our stubborn lives By suffering. Nothing speaks the truth, Nothing tells us how things really are, Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know Except pain. And this is how the gods declare their love.

Aeschylus

For the lips of Zeus do not know how to lie, but bring to fulfilment every word.

Aeschylus

Oaths are not the credit of men but men of oaths.

Richard Shelby

What we've got to do is find the truth.

Ed Koch

You want me to tell me the truth or do you want me to stroke you?

Bobby Vinton

I was smart, to tell you the truth. I'm not really bright, but I'm not stupid.

Bob Dylan

The truth was obscure, Too profound and too pure, To live it you had to explode

Bob Dylan

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Bob Dylan

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

Billy Crudup

From here on out, I am only interested in what is real. Real people, real feelings, that's it. That's all I'm interested in.

Boris Pasternak

... the unarmed power of naked truth.

Boris Pasternak

In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.