Quotes about Truth

Mourn for Ophelia, if you like. Put ashes on your head because Cordelia was strangled. Cry out against Heaven because the daughter of Brabantio died. But don't waste your tears over Sibyl Vane. She was less real than they are.

It is perfectly monstrous, he said, at last, the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.

Come, I tell you. You have chattered enough about corruption. Now you shall look on it face to face!

The fact is that we look back on the ages entirely through the medium of Art, and Art, very fortunately, has never once told us the truth.

He has certainly not been paying me compliments. Perhaps that is the reason that I don't believe anything he has told me.

Mere words.. Was there anything so real as words?

Was there anything so real as words?

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. 

When the prurient and the impotent attack you, be sure you are right.

To test reality we must see it on the tight rope. When the verities become acrobats, we can judge them.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.  Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility! Jack.  That wouldn't be at all a bad thing. Algernon.  Literary criticism is not your forte, my dear fellow.  Don't try it.  You should leave that to people who haven't been at a University.  They do it so well in the daily papers. 

Ideals are dangerous things.  Realities are better.  They wound