Nothing But The Truth Quotes

• 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

  Truth, Men, Forgive Me

  Oscar Wilde (1899). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.151

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• I must speak the truth, and nothing but the truth.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Fruitcake, Speak, Speak The Truth

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Quixote de la Mancha (don, fict.name.) (1847). “The history of don Quixote de la Mancha. From the Span. To which is prefixed a sketch of the life and writings of the author. Select libr. ed”, p.115

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• No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition.

  William Osler

  Life, Humility, Men

  Sir William Osler (2001). “Osler's "a Way of Life" and Other Addresses, with Commentary and Annotations”, p.337, Duke University Press

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• Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Law, Littles, Mystery

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2013). “The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries: Whose Body?, Clouds of Witness, and Unnatural Death”, p.317, Open Road Media

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• The truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth. Little men are dissolved in it. If there is any gold, truth makes it shine more brightly. . . .Truth, even in the mouth of an informer, a spy, a briber, can become bigger than anybody who tries to destroy it. Truth survives.

  Adela Rogers St. Johns

  Truth, Men, Shining

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• In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged up only as a final resort when the alternative options of deception, threat and bribery have all been exhausted.

  Michael Musto

  Years, Ideas, Deception

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• Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: a fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.

  George Herbert

  Truth, Honesty, Lying

  Jeremy Taylor, John Wheeldon, George Herbert (1768). “Sacred Prolusions: Or, Select Pieces from Bishop Taylor and Mr. Herbert. By the Rev. John Wheeldon, ... With a Preface and a Discourse on Rev.xviii. 21. By the Editor”, p.98

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• When we started, it was based on lies. It's changing now. There are no secrets in the business. You've got to come with the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. It's becoming very confusing.

  Don King

  Lying, Boxing, Confusing

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  I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.

  John Keats

  Inspirational, Truth, Lying

  Letter to Benjamin Bailey, 22 Nov. 1817

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• Honesty is a virtue, but not the only one. If you're in a courtroom you need the whole truth and nothing but the truth; in the living room, sometimes you need anything but. Often.

  Judith Martin

  Honesty, Needs, Rooms

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• Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so.

  Mark Twain

  Truth, Inspiration, Prevailing

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.27, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.

  E. M. Forster

  History, Emotion, Certain

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.655, Delphi Classics

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• If you don't tell the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth about your own life, someone may claim the right to tell it for you.

  Lucinda Roy

  Gossip, May, Telling The Truth

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• At the outset do not be worried about this big question-Truth. It is a very simple matter if each one of you starts with the desire to get as much as possible. No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition. In this unsatisfied quest the attitude of mind, the desire, the thirst-a thirst that from the soul must arise!-the fervent longing, are the be-all and the end-all.

  William Osler

  Attitude, Science, Simple

  Sir William Osler (2001). “Osler's "a Way of Life" and Other Addresses, with Commentary and Annotations”, p.337, Duke University Press

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• If you come to a negotiation table saying you have the final truth, that you know nothing but the truth and that is final, you will get nothing.

  Harri Holkeri

  Inspirational, Finals, Tables

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• Speak nothing but the truth, and you'll soon be considered dangerous.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Speak, Dangerous

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• you'd like the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. That must be the most futile oath anyone ever swears.

  P. D. James

  Oath, Swear, Whole

  P. D. James (2008). “The Lighthouse”, p.203, Faber & Faber

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• I suppose I really seemed mad, then; but it was only through the awfulness of having said nothing but the truth, and being thought to be deluded.

  Sarah Waters

  Mad, Said, Awfulness

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• Humility is nothing but truth, and pride is nothing but lying.

  Vincent de Paul

  Truth, Lying, Humility

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• The spiritual experience of the philosopher is the nourishing soil of philosophy; that without it there is no philosophy; and that, even so, spiritual experience does not, or must not, enter into the intelligible texture of philosophy. The pulp of the fruit must consist of nothing but the truth.

  Jacques Maritain

  Spiritual, Philosophy, Doe

  Jacques Maritain (2015). “Existence and the Existent”, p.104, Paulist Press

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• It is worth remembering (though there is nothing that we can do about it) that the world as it really is may easily be a far nastier place than it would be if scientific materialism were the whole truth and nothing but the truth about it.

  C. D. Broad

  Truth, Would Be, World

  C. D. Broad (2011). “Lectures on Psychical Research (Routledge Revivals): Incorporating the Perrott Lectures Given in Cambridge University in 1959 and 1960”, p.319, Routledge

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• The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

  Samuel Butler

  Bible, Biblical, May

  Samuel Butler (1951). “Notebooks”

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• If you don't have your health, you don't have anything.

  Chuck Pagano

  Ifs

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• They say if you don't have your health you ain't got nothing, but the truth is you ain't got nothing if you don't have no one to worry about your health.

  Bernie Mac

  Health, Worry, Truth Is

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