Quotes & Sayings About Truth Oscar Wilde

The truth is rarely pure — Oscar Wilde

All love is true, but not all truth ... is love? — Oscar Wilde

A truth ceases to be true when more than one person believes in it. — Oscar Wilde

Hello, I am Oscar Wilde — Oscar Wilde

So he was queer, E.M. Forster. It wasn't his middle name (that would be 'Morgan'), but it was his orientation, his romping pleasure, his half-secret, his romantic passion. In the long-suppressed novel Maurice the title character blurts out his truth, 'I'm an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort.' It must have felt that way when Forster came of sexual age in the last years of the 19th century: seriously risky and dangerously blurt-able. The public cry had caught Wilde, exposed and arrested him, broken him in prison. He was one face of anxiety to Forster; his mother was another. As long as she lived (and they lived together until she died, when he was 66), he couldn't let her know. — Michael Levenson

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! — Oscar Wilde

The truth is the truth. 'Rarely pure and never simple,' as Oscar Wilde would say. — Kami Garcia

Ah! it is so easy to convert others. It is so difficult to convert oneself. To arrive at what one really believes, one must speak through lips different from one's own. To know the truth one must imagine myriads of falsehoods. — Oscar Wilde

If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you. — George Bernard Shaw

To find the truth, try to follow the Socratic method. Just don't forget to follow your intuition and imagination. — Debasish Mridha

The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value. — Oscar Wilde

It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true. — Oscar Wilde

Ah! that is the great thing in life, to live the truth. — Oscar Wilde

I can't express the truth about reality. I can only express my feelings. — Debasish Mridha

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? — Oscar Wilde

The greatest obstacle in understanding the universe is the conformity and fear of truth. — Debasish Mridha

The truth about the life of a man is not what he does, but the legend which he creates around himself. — Oscar Wilde

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. — Oscar Wilde

The truth should not be contingent, but it should be coherent. — Debasish Mridha

Indeed, as a rule, everybody turns out to be somebody else. — Oscar Wilde

I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse. — Oscar Wilde

Truth in art is the unity of a thing with itself: the outward rendered expressive of the inward: the soul made incarnate: the body instinct with spirit. For this reason there is no truth comparable to sorrow. — Oscar Wilde

Beautiful untrue things are even more beautiful when they're true. — Marty Rubin

Well, the way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test reality we must see it on the tight rope. — Oscar Wilde

If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out. — Oscar Wilde

If you are going to tell people the truth, you had better make them laugh or they will kill you. — Oscar Wilde

We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities. — Oscar Wilde

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. — Oscar Wilde

One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything. — Oscar Wilde

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it. — Oscar Wilde

True love is just like regular love, but with more truth. — Oscar Wilde

Jack: "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: "I can. For I feel that you are sure to change. — Oscar Wilde

The truth is a thing I get id of as soon as possible! Bad habit, by the way. Makes one very unpopular at the club... with the older members. They call it being conceited. Perhaps it is. — Oscar Wilde

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. — Oscar Wilde

MRS ALLONBY You have your looking-glass
LORD ILLINGWORTH It is unkind. I merely shows me my wrinkles.
MRS ALLONBY Mine is better behaved. It never tells me the truth.
LORD ILLINGWORTH Then it is in love with you. — Oscar Wilde

There are times when sorrow seems to me to be the only truth. — Oscar Wilde

The truth is never pure and rarely simple. — Oscar Wilde

It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. — Oscar Wilde

We often know the truth, but rarely do we follow it. — Debasish Mridha

Even things that are true can be proved. — Oscar Wilde

The pure and simple truth is, the truth is never pure and simple. — Oscar Wilde

Algernon. The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility! Jack. That wouldn't be at all a bad thing. Algernon. Literary criticism is not your forte, my dear fellow. Don't try it. You should leave that to people who haven't been at a University. They do it so well in the daily papers. — Oscar Wilde

Please, tell me the truth.
The truth, who knows the truth?
You've heart knows the truth. — Oscar Wilde

I am not apologetic. I don't define or defend my philosophical thoughts. You have to feel them, think about them, imagine them, and then try to understand them. My thoughts are my truths. They may not be your truth, and that is fine with me. — Debasish Mridha

Give a man a mask and he'll tell you the truth. — Oscar Wilde

If you do not love me, say, nonetheless, you do, for on your tongue falsehood for very shame would turn to truth. — Oscar Wilde

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. - Oscar Wilde — Greg Iles

Here is the difference between Oscar Wilde and me. For all the tortures he suffered, for all the ugliness of being punished for loving men, nobody read his lines and asked him: What does your husband think of that? Jail, exile
these were his lot. But never, What does your husband think?
Women may have the vote, but they are not free as long as that reaction erupts. Even those without husbands are judged as if they had offended them merely by writing the truth.
So immovable is the wall around a woman's freedom that she can't do a things without being asked to think of its effect upon some man who is presumed to be more important than she. — Erica Jong

Every thing to be true must become a religion. — Oscar Wilde

Truth is independent of facts always. — Oscar Wilde

The truth is that there is no absolute truth. — Debasish Mridha

I want to know the truth to set it free. — Debasish Mridha

The public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities ... A fresh mode of Beauty is absolutely distasteful to them, and whenever it appears they get so angry and bewildered that they always use two stupid expressions
one is that the work of art is grossly unintelligible; the other, that the work of art is grossly immoral. What they mean by these words seems to me to be this. When they say a work is grossly unintelligible, they mean that the artist has said or made a beautiful thing that is new; when they describe a work as grossly immoral, they mean that the artist has said or made a beautiful thing that is true. — Oscar Wilde

The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple. — Oscar Wilde

Early in life she had discovered the important truth that nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion; and by a series of reckless escapades, half of them quite harmless, she had acquired all the privileges of a personality. — Oscar Wilde

To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul. — Oscar Wilde

Women have no appreciation of good looks-at least, good women have not. — Oscar Wilde

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. — Oscar Wilde