Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy.

Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Comfort is no test of truth. Truth is often far from being comfortable.

I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets.

A first rate soup is better than a second rate painting.

In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty.

I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Those who cry the loudest are not always the ones who are hurt the most.

It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.

No matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as the truth.

Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.

Never apologise for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologise for the truth.

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

Truth suffers from too much analysis.

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

Peace at home is peace in the country. Peace in the country is peace in the world.