#ruth

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#fool #how #know #lie #man

The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#may #nothing #truth #whole

I'm always trying to do the impossible to please people. It comes from not being secure in myself and not looking at the things within I have to fix. Sometimes you keep going because you don't want to face the truth. ↗

— Naomi Campbell

#because #being #comes #face #fix

A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments. ↗

— Joyce Cary

#emotional #emotional truth #experience #novel #rather

Wish in one hand, shit in the other, see which one fills up faster. ↗

— Noelle Oxenhandler

#humour #life #melancholy #the-art-of-wishing #truth

In this world truth can wait; she is used to it. ↗

— Douglas William Jerrold

#truth #used #wait #world

A vision of truth which does not call upon us to get out of our armchair - why, this is the desideratum of mankind. ↗

— John Jay Chapman

#call #does #get #mankind #our

Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same - hardihood. Give them raw truth. ↗

— John Jay Chapman

#both #conflict #cure #everybody #give

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#author #bad #good #hero #novel

In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#matters #nine #ought #out #proof