Quotes About Truth

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

An admirable idea! Mr. Worthing, there is just one question I would like to be permitted to put to you. Where is your brother Ernest? We are both engaged to be married to your brother Ernest, so it is a matter of some importance to us to know where your brother Ernest is at present.

Cuando nos confesamos de algo, pensamos que nadie más tiene derecho a culparnos. Es la confesión, no el sacerdote, lo que nos absuelve

I could deny it if I liked. I could deny anything if I liked. But my name certainly is John. It has been John for years.

If you're going to tell people the truth, make them laugh.

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. When

La experiencia no tiene ningún valor ético. Es simplemente el nombre que los hombres dan a sus errores

Sumienie i tchórzostwo to to samo. Sumienie to po prostu nazwa firmowa. Nic wiÄ™cej.

warto?? idei w ?aden sposób nie zale?y od szczeroÅ›ci tego, kto jÄ… gÅ'osi. Wprost przeciwnie; istnieje du?e prawdopodobieÅ"stwo, ?e im bardziej jest nieszczery, tym bardziej stanowi ona czysty wytwór jego intelektu, nieska?ony jego osobistymi potrzebami, pragnieniami czy przesÄ…dami.

A we wszystkich romansach najgorsze jest to, ?e cz?owiek wychodzi z nich pozbawiony wszelkiego romantyzmu.

Truth in Art is the unity of a thing with itself: the outward rendered expressive of the inward: the soul made incarnate: the body instinct with spirit.

Truth, indeed, is a thing that is most painful to listen to and most painful to utter.

Truth in art is not any correspondence between the essential idea and the accidental existence; it is not the resemblance of shape to shadow, or of the form mirrored in the crystal to the form itself; it is no echo coming from a hollow hill anymore than it is a silver well of water in the valley that shows the moon to the moon and Narcissus to Narcissus.

Kiedy si? zakochamy, zawsze najpierw oszukujemy siebie, a na koniec nieodmiennie zwodzimy innych. To w?a?nie ?wiat nazywa romansem.

Sincerity is the last refuge of the shallow.

Das wirkliche Leben war Chaos, aber es lag eine schreckliche Logik in der Phantasie.

Bana bunu yok ettiÄŸini söylemiÅŸtin. Yanl?? söylemiÅŸim. O beni yok etti.

If one doesn't talk about a thing, it has never happened.

The truth is rarely pure

Adevarul despre casatorie este acela ca te face sa nu mai fi egoist. Iar oamenii lipsiti de egoism sun incolori. Le lipseste individualitatea

LA VIDA NO ES LA QUE VIVIMOS. LA VIDA ES EL HONOR Y EL RECUERDO. POR ESO MAS VALE MORIR CON EL PUEBLO VIVO, Y NO VIVIR CON EL PUEBLO MUERTO. Life is not as it seems, Life is pride and personal history. Thus it is better that one die and that the people should live, rahter than one live and the people should die. ~Lopitos

And the truth of the matter is that death is a mystery to me. I have no opinion on the subject.

Firewater brings out the real brownness of this buffalo.

What an awful thing the truth is, and how comforting is a lie.