Quotes About Truth

Truth, however bitter, can be accepted, and woven into a design for living.

words, ingeniously used, will serve to mask the ugliness of naked facts.

There are questions that you don't ask because you're afraid of the answers to them.

Why must it be simple?' ' Because it appears so complex. If it has necessarily to appear complex, it must be simple. You comprehend that?

wanted to know." "It's better not to know. It's better never to know. Better to leave things as they are. Not push and pry and poke." "You want beauty," said Hercule Poirot. "Beauty at any price. For me, it is truth I want. Always truth." Michael

La verità è che la maggior parte della gente, non esclusi i poliziotti, si fida troppo di questo mondo perverso. Crede troppo a quanto viene loro raccontato. Io no. Mi dispiace, ma io voglio sempre rendermi conto personalmente delle cose.

There just didn't seem anyone else who could have done it. I thought perhaps he'd gone a little mad." "Did he ever seem to you a little—what shall I say—queer?" "Oh no. Not queer in that way. He was just shy and awkward as anyone might be. The truth was, he didn't make the best of himself. He hadn't confidence in himself.

we all have an exaggerated idea of our own personalities and don't recognize the truth if it's sufficiently brutally portrayed...

You tell your lies and you think nobody knows. But there are two people who know. Yes - two people. One is le bon Dieu -" He raised a hand to heaven, and then settling himself back in his chair and shutting his eyelids, he murmured comfortably: "And the other is Hercule Poirot.

Truth," she said, "is seldom romantic.

Successful love may sometimes use the language of flattery, I admit. But hopeless love, dearest, always speaks the truth.

I do really believe that, like so many liars, there is a real substratum of truth behind her lies.

Poirot. "You find out

To deceive deliberately—that is one thing. But to be so sure of your facts, of your ideas and of their essential truth that the details do not matter—that, my friend, is a special characteristic of particularly honest persons.

I have made it a habit," said Miss Marple. "To be careful?" "I should not put it exactly like that, but I have made a point of being always ready to disbelieve as well as believe anything that is told to me.

Sabía que la secuela de las confidencias era la vergüenza

I did not tell you that Helena Andrenyi was Mrs. Armstrong's sister?

What do you expect Cust to tell you?" Hercule Poirot smiled. "A lie," he said. "And by it, I shall know the truth!

Una ha de tener el valor necesario para enfrentarse a la realidad. Sin ese valor, la vida carece de significado. La gente que más daño nos hace es aquella que nos escuda contra la realidad.

It is odd, when you have a secret belief of your own which you do not wish to acknowledge, the voicing of it by someone else will rouse you to a fury of denial. I burst immediately into indignant speech.

Child's evidence is always the best evidence there is. I'd rely on it every time. No good in court, of course. Children can't stand being asked direct questions. They mumble or else look idiotic and say they don't know. They're at their best when they're showing off.

Why not have told me the truth?" he countered. "In a place like this, all Ralph Paton's doings were bound to be known. If your sister had not happened to pass through the wood that day somebody else would have done

The young people think that the old people are fools, but the old people KNOW the young people are fools.

If Miss Debenham is innocent, why did she conceal that fact? Why did she tell me that she had never been in America?