There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering.
Minna Antrim
The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection.
Guillaume Apollinaire
The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents... →
Thomas Aquinas
Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it... →
Louis Aragon
Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.
Joan of Arc
We go on a lot in this country about offences being caused by drugs. The truth is just as many offences are caused by drink. And that should be taken... →
Jeffrey Archer
The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to... →
Hannah Arendt
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.
Pietro Aretino
If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them.