Quotes About Truth

He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize.

The only things that one can use in fiction are the things that one has ceased to use in fact.

To test reality we must see it on the tight rope. When the verities become acrobats, we can judge them.

the one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

It is a vulgar error to suppose that America was ever discovered. It was merely detected.

Conciencia y cobardía son lo mismo realmente, Basil. La conciencia es el nombre comercial de la empresa. Eso es todo

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility.

Moral grounds are always the last refuge of people who have no sense of beauty.

I am afraid it is quite clear, Cecily, that neither of us is engaged to be married to any one.

El único error imperdonable en el que incurren todas las personas verdaderamente buenas y que nunca pueden evitar es conversar de forma sincera

Cecily: - La explicación parece satisfactoria, ¿no? Gwendolen: - Sí, siempre que usted le crea. Cecily: - No le creo, pero eso no afecta la belleza de su respuesta

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. 

There is such a thing as robbing a story of its reality by trying to make it too true...

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.  Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility! Jack.  That wouldn't be at all a bad thing. Algernon.  Literary criticism is not your forte, my dear fellow.  Don't try it.  You should leave that to people who haven't been at a University.  They do it so well in the daily papers. 

Jack.  [In a very patronising manner.]  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!

My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite.

Untruthful! My nephew Algernon? Impossible! He is an Oxonian.

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

We are never more true to ourselves than when we are inconsistent.

Ideals are dangerous things.  Realities are better.  They wound

La verdad es una cosa muy dolorosa de oír y de manifestar

a beleza, a verdadeira beleza, acaba onde a expressão intelectual começa. O intelecto é já uma forma de exagero e destrói a harmonia de qualquer rosto.

The basis of every scandal is an immoral certainty

So you think that it is only God who sees the soul? Draw that curtain back, and you will see mine.