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Quotes About Truth

Si media cebolla está podrida, la cebolla está podrida. Un hombre es bueno o malo...
~ George R.R. Martin
My tongue lied my eyes shouted the truth.
~ George R.R. Martin
On armageddon day,' Sandy said, 'both armies will think they fight for good. And both of them will be wrong.
~ George R.R. Martin
Robert could piss in a cup and men would call it wine, but I offer them cold clear water and they squint in suspicion and mutter to each other about how queer it tastes.
~ George R.R. Martin
Until what? Foolish woman, will holding it secret in our heart make it any less true? If you never tell, never speak of it, will it become only a dream, less than a dream, a nightmare half-remembered? Oh, if only the gods would be so good.
~ George R.R. Martin
No man is free. Only children and fools think elsewise.
~ George R.R. Martin
I'm the same as you. The only difference is, I don't lie about what I am. So kill me, but don't call me a murderer while you stand there telling each other that your shit don't stink.
~ George R.R. Martin
El corazón miente y la mente engaña, pero los ojos ven. Mira con los ojos. Escucha con los oídos. Saborea con la boca. Huele con la nariz. Siente con la piel. Y no pienses hasta después, y así sabrás la verdad. —Syrio Forel
~ George R.R. Martin
I know that sounds too earnest, but it's true. I mean, I would rather be a librarian, but I worry about the job security. Books may be temporary; dicks are forever.
~ George R.R. Martin
A lie is not so bad if it is kindly meant. If only she believed them...
~ George R.R. Martin
La historia ha confirmado la triste verdad de que las masas irracionales siempre se han alineado detrás del poderoso y no del sabio.
~ George R.R. Martin
Troubled sleep was no stranger to him. He had lived his lies for fourteen years,
~ George R.R. Martin
Honor," she said. "The point is honor.
~ George R.R. Martin
Must you be in such haste to don your clothes, ser? I prefer you as you are. Abed, unclad, we are our truest selves, a man and a woman, lovers, one flesh, as close as two can be. Our clothes make us different people - I would sooner be flesh and blood than silks and jewels, and you... you are not your white cloak, ser.
~ George R.R. Martin
I don't know you. I can't know you. You don't even know yourself, see? And me, do you know me? No. Even less. You know what I tell you, and I tell you the truth, but maybe not all. And you read my feelings, my surface feelings—the pain of a stubbed toe, a quick flash of annoyance, the pleasure I get when you're in me. Does that mean you know me? What of my levels, and levels? What about the things I don't even know myself? Do you know them? How, Robb, how?
~ George R.R. Martin
Songs are sung of Prince Joffrey's last flight as well. Some singers can find glory even in a privy, Mushroom tells us, but it takes a fool to speak the truth. Though we cannot doubt the prince's courage, his act was one of folly.
~ George R.R. Martin
Words won´t make your mother a whore. She was what she was
~ George R.R. Martin
They betrayed me. But they saved me. But they lied. - Daenerys
~ George R.R. Martin
If I had me a nice goose quill and a pot o' maester's ink, I could write down that me member was long and thick as me arm, wouldn't make it so.
~ George R.R. Martin
It is every man's duty to remain loyal to his rightful King, even if the lord he serves proves false.
~ George R.R. Martin
I have made more mistakes than you can possibly imagine," Ned said, "but that was not one of them.
~ George R.R. Martin
The hard truths are the ones to hold tight.
~ George R.R. Martin
Valar morghulis," said Missandei, in High Valyrian. "All men must die," Dany agreed,
~ George R.R. Martin
Fooling folk was simple as singing. Tricking folk and telling lies, it was like breathing. But this? Convincing someone of the truth that they were too twisted to see? How could you even begin?
~ George R.R. Martin