Quotes About Truth

My friend, she is a woman. No, no, you are deceived--she is a queen.

What the count said was true—the most curious spectacle in life is that of death.

So is it true, what our enemies say about us: nothing learned, nothing forgotten? (Talleyrand)

You are right; you know men better than I do, and what you say may possibly be the case, I confess; but if such persons are among my acquaintances I prefer not to know it, because then I should be forced to hate them

he spoke with so much simplicity that it was evident he spoke the truth, or that he was mad.

Bu kutsal bir sözdür, iyi bilirim: polis hata yapt???nda iz üzerinde olduÄŸunu söyler, hükümet de, polisin süklüm püklüm gelip izin yok olduÄŸunu söyleyeceÄŸi güne kadar sakin sakin bekler.

do you really believe I can acquire all these things in so short a time? Not their application, certainly, but their principles you may; to learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the other. But cannot one learn philosophy? Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth; it is like the golden cloud in which the Messiah went up into heaven.

Look here, Monsieur l'Abbé,' said Caderousse. 'Here in the corner of this wall is a crucifix of consecrated wood; here, on this sideboard, is my wife's New Testament. Open it and I will swear to you on it, with my hand extended towards the crucifix: I will swear by my immortal soul, by my Christian faith, that I have told you everything just as it was and as the recording angel will whisper it into God's ear on the Day of Judgement!

Vous croyez donc aux journaux, vous  ? – Moi, pas le moins du monde ;

falsehood is a mask; and however well made the mask may be, with a little attention we may always succeed in distinguishing it from the true face.

So, summoning up all the power of her will, she tried to shut her eyes, but this operation of the most fearful of our senses, an operation that is normally so simple, at that moment became almost impossible to carry out, so strongly did eager curiosity struggle to push back her eyelids and discover the truth.

Une illusion de moins, c'est une vérité de plus.

You speak like the Apocalypse, and you are as true as the Gospel. There

on the steps of the scaffold death tears off the mask that has been worn through life, and the real visage is disclosed.

that he perceived that people said the truth and that she had poisoned all her family; to which she replied, that if she had, it was only through following bad advice, and that one could not always be good.

The truth is that you are afraid.' 'Afraid? I do not know all the words in the Parisian jargon, and I know not what you mean.

Ogni falsità è una maschera, e per quanto la maschera sia ben fatta, si arriva sempre, con un po' di attenzione, a distinguerla dal volto.

short time ago, while making researches in the Royal Library for my History of Louis XIV, I stumbled by chance upon the Memoirs of M. d'Artagnan, printed—as were most of the works of that period, in which authors could not tell the truth without the risk of a residence, more or less long, in the Bastille—at Amsterdam, by Pierre Rouge.

Eh! sire, that is the fate of truth; she is a stern companion; she bristles all over with steel; she wounds those whom she attacks, and sometimes him who speaks her.

rogue does not laugh in the same way that an honest man does; a hypocrite does not shed the tears of a man of good faith. All falsehood is a mask; and however well made the mask may be, with a little attention we may always succeed in distinguishing it from the true face.

lisonja? Lo cierto era que la cuestión

The eyes of a woman who loves are not easily deceived.

Ni-l închipuim pe Dumnezeu, dar simÈ›im dragostea; nu cumva dragostea este singurul, unicul È™i adev?ratul Dumnezeu?

Não conheço outra verdade senão a dos meus desejos.