Quotes About Truth

My dear fellow, the truth isn't quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl. What extraordinary ideas you have about the way to behave to a woman!

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?

I think you are wrong, Basil, but I won't argue with you. It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.

Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.

A mask tells us more than a face.

Give a man a mask and he'll tell you the truth.

The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything.

Truth is independent of facts always.

Just because a man has died for it, does not make it true.

America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.

I've now realised for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest.

Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.

True friends stab you in the front

Never mind what I say. I am always saying what I shouldn't say. In fact, I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood.

Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.

The world seemed to me fine because you were in it, and goodness more real because you lived.

To deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.

You have always told me it was Ernest. I have introduced you to every one as Ernest. You answer to the name of Ernest. You look as if your name was Ernest. You are the most earnest-looking person I ever saw in my life. It is perfectly absurd your saying that your name isn't Ernest.

It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.

Even things that are true can be proved.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask and he'll tell you the truth

Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.

Well, the way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test reality we must see it on the tight rope. When the verities become acrobats, we can judge them.