Quotes About Truth

Para la mayoría de nosotros la verdadera vida es la vida que no llevamos.

I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood.

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.

Pray do! I think that whenever one has anything unpleasant to say, one should always be quite candid.

But you don't really mean to say that you couldn't love me if my name wasn't Ernest? GWENDOLEN: But your name is Ernest. JACK: Yes, I know it is. But supposing it was something else? Do you mean to say you couldn't love me then? GWENDOLEN (glibly) : Ah! that is clearly a metaphysical speculation, and like most metaphysical speculations has very little reference at all to the actual facts of real life, as we know them.

Mourn for Ophelia, if you like. Put ashes on your head because Cordelia was strangled. Cry out against Heaven because the daughter of Brabantio died. But don't waste your tears over Sibyl Vane. She was less real than they are.

It is perfectly monstrous, he said, at last, the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.

Jack: "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?" Gwendolen: "I can. For I feel that you are sure to change.

Why didn't you tell me that the only thing worth loving is an actress?

In love, one always begins in deceiving oneself, and one always ends in deceiving others.

Come, I tell you. You have chattered enough about corruption. Now you shall look on it face to face!

The fact is, that the public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing. 

The pure and simple truth is, the truth is never pure and simple.

No artist desires to prove anything. Even things that are can be proved. No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style. No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything.

MRS ALLONBY You have your looking-glass LORD ILLINGWORTH It is unkind. I merely shows me my wrinkles. MRS ALLONBY Mine is better behaved. It never tells me the truth. LORD ILLINGWORTH Then it is in love with you.

The fact is that we look back on the ages entirely through the medium of Art, and Art, very fortunately, has never once told us the truth.

One should not look at anything. Neither at things, nor at people should one look. Only in mirrors is it well to look, for mirrors do but show us masks.

He has certainly not been paying me compliments. Perhaps that is the reason that I don't believe anything he has told me.

That certainly seems a satisfactory explanation, does it not? – Yes dear, if you can believe him. – I don't. But that does not affect the wonderful beauty of his answer.

You never say a moral thing, and you never do a wrong thing.

The basis of every scandal is immoral certainty.

Ah! it is so easy to convert others. It is so difficult to convert oneself. To arrive at what one really believes, one must speak through lips different from one's own. To know the truth one must imagine myriads of falsehoods.

Dale una máscara a un hombre y te dirá la verdad

Jack: [Slowly and hesitatingly] "Gwendolen–Cecily–it is very painful for me to be forced to speak the truth. It is the first time in my life that I have ever been reduced to such a painful position, and I am really quite inexperienced in doing anything of the kind.