Quotes about Truth
After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.
— Oscar Wilde
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
— Oscar Wilde
One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.
— Oscar Wilde
And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite.
— Oscar Wilde
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?
— Oscar Wilde
Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.
— Oscar Wilde
America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.
— Oscar Wilde
Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.
— Oscar Wilde
Neither at things, nor at people should one look. Only in mirrors should one look, for mirrors do but show us masks.
— Oscar Wilde
I was wrong. God's law is only Love.
— Oscar Wilde
A truth ceases to be true when more than one person believes in it.
— Oscar Wilde
Behind every smile there's teeth.
— Confucius