Quotes About Truth

Es perfectamente monstruoso -dijo por fin- la costumbre que tiene la gente hoy día de hablar a espaldas de uno y decir de él cosas que son completa y absolutamente ciertas.

Mere words.. Was there anything so real as words?

When I see a spade I call it a spade. I'm glad to say I have never seen a spade!

It is possible, of course, that I may exaggerate about them. I certainly hope that I do; for where there is no exaggeration there is no love, and where there is no love there is no understanding. It is only about things that do not interest one, that one can give a really unbiassed opinion; and this is no doubt the reason why an unbiassed opinion is always valueless.

Nos prometieron que los sueños podrían volverse realidad. Pero se les olvido mencionar que las pesadillas también son sueños.

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.

truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Was there anything so real as words?

If something cannot be done to check, or at least to modify, our monstrous worship of facts, art will become sterile and beauty will pass away from the land.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. 

One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that, would tell one anything.

But there are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely — or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.

Cuando uno está enamorado, siempre comienza engañándose a sí mismo y termina engañando a otros. Eso es lo que el mundo llama amor

We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices.

wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many things, but he is not rational.

I have said to you that to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse.

Lord Henry looked serious for some moments, 'It is perfectly monstrous,' he said at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutley and entirely true.

When the prurient and the impotent attack you, be sure you are right.

Nichts Interessantes ist jemals richtig.

Please, tell me the truth. The truth, who knows the truth? You've heart knows the truth.

Ah! that is the great thing in life, to live the truth.

The supreme vice is shallowness. Whatever is realised is right.

Llevamos cadenas, aunque nadie las vea, y somos esclavos, aunque los hombres nos llamen libres

Palabras! ¡Simples palabras! ¡Qué terribles eran! ¡Cuán claras, vívidas y crueles! Parece que uno no puede escaparse de ellas. ¡Y, sin embargo, qué magia sutil contienen! Parecen conferir una forma plástica a las cosas informes y tienen una música propia, tan dulce como la del violín o la del laúd. ¡Simples palabras! ¿Hay algo más real que las palabras?