Truth

Truth-loving Persians do not dwell upon

The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.

Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway,

Photography is truth. The cinema is truth 24 times per second.

Most of the change we think we see in life

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

Cragged, and steep, Truth stands, and he that will

Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.

Treaties, you see, are like girls and roses: they last while they last.

Mordre wol out; that se we day by day.

Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish.

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.

Falsehood and delusion are allowed in no case whatsoever: But, as in the exercise of all the virtues, there is an economy of truth.

Yet my great-grandfather was but a waterman, looking one way, and rowing another.

A truth that’s told with bad intent

Be so true to thyself as thou be not false to others.

A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure.

What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.

Ah, love, let us be true To one another!

Amicus Plato, sed magis amica veritas.

‘But the Emperor has nothing on at all!’ cried a little child.

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won.

Whenever you have truth, it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Truth stands, even if there is no public support; it is self-sustained.