Truth has not such an urgent air.
[Fr., La verite n'a point cet air impetueux.]

Truth has not such an urgent air.
[Fr., La verite n'a point cet air impetueux.]

To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.

To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.

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

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

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please; you can never have both.

God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please; you can never have both.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Nobody dies nowadays of fatal truths: there are too many antidotes to them.

Nobody dies nowadays of fatal truths: there are too many antidotes to them.

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

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

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.