Quotes About Truth

Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left.

I do not pretend to set people right, but I do see that they are often wrong.

Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility.

I write only to bid you Farewell. The spell is removed; I see you as you are.

She denied none of it aloud, and agreed to none of it in private.

I am fond of history and am very well contented to take the false with the true. In the principal facts they have sources of intelligence in former histories and records, which may be as much depended on, I conclude, as anything that does not actually pass under ones own observation; and as for the little embellishments you speak of, they are embellishments, and I like them as such.

Es una verdad mundialmente reconocida que un hombre soltero, poseedor de una gran fortuna, necesita una esposa.

Affectation of candour is common enough—one meets with it everywhere. But to be candid without ostentation or design—to take the good of everybody's character and make it still better, and say nothing of the bad—belongs to you alone.

No soy hombre de muchas palabras, Emma. Si te amara menos, sería capaz de hablar más de ello. Pero sabes como soy. De mí no escucharás más que verdades. Te he hecho reproches y te he reprendido y lo has soportado como ninguna otra mujer en toda Inglaterra lo hubiera hecho. Soporta todas las verdades que ahora te voy a decir, mi queridísima Emma, tan bien como soportaste aquellas

Muchas veces, los hechos hablan tan claramente que no precisan palabras.

How hard it is in some cases to be believed!' 'And how impossible in others!

it is often nothing but our own vanity that decieves us

I must tell you what you will not ask, though I may wish it unsaid the next moment

Words were insufficient for the elevation of his [Mr Collins'] feelings; and he was obliged to walk about the room, while Elizabeth tried to unite civility and truth in a few short sentences.

Her form, though not so correct as her sister's, in having the advantage of height, was more striking; and her face was so lovely, that when in the common cant of praise she was called a beautiful girl, truth was less violently outraged than usually happens.

He must tell his own story.' 'But he will tell only half of it.' 'A quarter would be enough.

I ask only what I want to be told.

I perfectly agree with you, sir,' was then his remark. 'You did behave very shamefully. You never wrote a truer line.

It's a truth universally acknowledged...

A todos nos gusta dar lecciones, pero sólo enseñamos lo que no merece la pena saber.

How little the general report of any one ought to be credited, since no character, however upright, can escape the malevolence of slander.

I thank you again and again for the hounour you have done me in your proposals, but to accept them is absolutely impossible. My feelings in every respect forbid it. Can I speak plainer? Do not consider me now as an elegant female, intending to plague you, but as an rational creature, speaking the truth from her heart.

Her face was so lovely, that when, in the common want of praise, she was called a beautiful girl, truth was less violently outraged than usually happens.

I cannot make speeches, Emma:"—he soon resumed, and in a tone of such sincere, decided, intelligible tenderness as was tolerably convincing. "If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am. You hear nothing but truth from me. I have blamed you, and lectured you, and you have borne it as no other woman in England would have borne it.