Truth Quotes

People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up. ~ A Clash of Kings by George R. R. Martin "Don't ever get angry at a man for stating the truth." ~ Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love. ~ Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare Being in a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad. ~ Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell "The best of life is built on what we say when we're in love. It isn't nonsense, Katharine," she urged, "it's the truth, it's the only truth." ~ Night and Day by Virginia Woolf "I make no manner of doubt that you threw a very diamond of truth at me, though you see it hit me so directly in the face that it wasn't exactly appreciated, at first." ~ Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe "It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." ~ The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Homely truth is unpalatable. ~ The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain "Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left." ~ Persuasion by Jane Austen "All great truths begin as blasphemies." ~ Annajanska, The Bolshevik Empress by George Bernard Shaw