Quotes About Revelation

When I was born I did lament and cry And now each day doth shew the reason why.

Discretion is not the better part of biography.

You've never seen this country It's not the way you thought it was Look again.

All will come out in the washing.

When I eventually met Mr. Right I had no idea that his first name was Always.

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

No blame should attach to telling the truth.

Creativeness often consists of merely turning up what is already there.

I don't want to see the uncut version of anything.

When I was young I was sure of everything; in a few years, having been mistaken a thousand times, I was not half so sure of most things as I was before; at present, I am hardly sure of anything but what God has revealed.

In vino Veritas. (In wine there is truth.)

I find the more I drink the more interesting others become.

It seems to me that you can go sauntering along for a certain period, telling the English some interesting things about themselves, and then all at once it feels as if you had stepped on the prongs of a rake.

After my mother's death, I began to see her as she had really been.... It was less like losing someone than discovering someone.

Before a secret is told, one can often feel the weight of it in the atmosphere.

Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.

People see God every day, they just don't recognize Him.

Happiness sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.

A sudden, bold, and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.

I wish everybody would go back into the closet.

We wander through this life together in a semi-darkness in which none of us can distinguish exactly the features of his neighbour. Only from time to time, through some experience that we have of our companion, or through some remark that he passes, he stands for a moment close to us, as though illuminated by a flash of lightning. Then we see him as he really is.

He that jokes confesses.

An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of a revelation.

Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.