Quotes About Truth

Lace and ruffles, swords and coaches, elegance and leisure, duels and gallant death. All lies. They used perfume instead of soap, their teeth rotted because they never cleaned them, their fingernails smelled of stale gravy. The nobility of France urinated against the walls in the marble corridors of Versailles, and when you finally got several sets of underclothes off the lovely marquise the first thing you noticed was that she needed a bath.

You lied to him and you drank your cyanide like a little gentleman. You died like a poisoned rat, Harry, but you're no rat to me.

Dames lie about anything - just for practice.

The first time we met I told you I was a detective. Get it through your lovely head. I work at it, lady. I don't play at it.

The first time we met I told you I was a detective. Get it through your lovely head. I work at it, lady. I don't play at it.

No trial, no sensational headlines, no mud-slinging just to sell newspapers without the slightest regard for truth or fair play or for the feelings of innocent people.

Writers who have the vision and the ability to produce real fiction do not produce unreal fiction.

He would be like that for the rest of his life and that is what his life was. You would never know how he got that way because even if he told you it would not be the truth. At the very best a distorted memory of the truth as he knew it. There is a sad man like that in every quiet bar in the world.

Intentan ser honestos, pero la honestidad es un arte. El mal escritor es deshonesto sin saberlo, y el escritor más o menos bueno puede que sea deshonesto porque no sabe sobre qué ser honesto.

If he is a man on honor in one thing, he is that in all things.

It is something only a few know in their lives. It is a vision of something so clear, so true, it can only be a madness. You see what life is worth, and you know what death means.

In some worlds there seems to be a synergy, but for the most part, what Kalkin said to you is the root truth: they are merely personifications of natural forces given whatever powers they possess by their worshippers. They have aspects that are perceived by mortals, and attributes they can wield.

Knowing what things are not is often as important as knowing what they are.

We saw what we saw. Whether it was a place or a vision in our mind, it doesn't matter. We must act upon what we experienced, so to that end, yes, it was real.' 'Now?

You've learned something very young, Prince, something that even older men rarely understand. You've learned that fear isn't a terrible-looking thing but something lovely and seductive.

Come you near or go you far, light from candle or flick'ring star? See what you will, or so you think, but is water sweet before you drink? Who can know of truth and lies? When can a man believe his eyes? Suspect what's known to mortal senses, for our nature vaults all mystic fences, that stand between that which is and seems, and back we are to truth ... or dreams.

There is no magic, only tricks.

Greška je u ?oveku ili ženi, a ne u biti vaseljene.

Nisi se ružno ponela prema meni, Karlina. Ja sam se ponašao kao tupan. - Ne, ti si se samo ponašao kao prijatelj Rolande. Rekao si mi istinu, a ne ono što sam želela da ?ujem.

you can't cheat an honest man,' and an honest man admits his own shortcomings.

Never offer an oath lightly. For you pledge not only your life and sacred honor, but your people's honor as well. To break an oath is to be without honor, to be without a spirit, and to be apart from the people.

time is coming, soon, when I will tell you things you will wish I had never told you.

He could not challenge him on that and besides, what he said was truth, which at this moment was dangerous.

the perhaps rather prosaic truth that law is an imperfect yet indispensable vehicle by which both to conserve and transform society