Gwendolen, it is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. Can you forgive me?
Gwendolen, it is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. Can you forgive me?
My dear fellow, the truth isn't quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl. What extraordinary ideas you have about the way to behave to a woman!
Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
It is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth.
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope. When the Verities become acrobats we can judge them.
And, by the way, one of the most delightful things I find in America is meeting a people without prejudice -- everywhere open to the truth.
If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
The way of paradoxes is the way of truth.
It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never quarrel with actions. My one quarrel is with words. . . . The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one.
My dear young lady, there was a great deal of truth, I dare say, in what you said, and you looked very pretty while you said it, which is much more important
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