Roger Williams Quotes

Homely truth is unpalatable.

The truth is not always what we want to hear.

Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.

Truth is a rough, honest, helter-skelter terrier that none like to see brought into their drawing rooms.

Oh well, the truth hurts, doesn't it?

Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit.

Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.

Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.

A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.

The truth is not beautiful --- it stands on cloven hooves - it is covered in coagulated blood --- but it is the truth.

I just feel like sometimes people don't want to hear the truth. It's hard when you hear the truth. People want to hear what they want to hear. Sometimes I have a hard time with that because I'm very honest.

Truth is only a question of point of view.

The truth is a bully we all pretend to like

No. Harsh truth was better than comfortable lies. It had to be.

No, that’s journalism. The truth is whatever you can’t escape.

There is more beauty in truth, even if it is a dreadful beauty. The storytellers at the city gate twist life so that it looks sweet to the lazy and the stupid and the weak, and this only strengthens their infirmities and teaches nothing, cures nothing, nor does it let the heart soar.

The language of truth is unvarnished enough.

Upon my word, I think the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with.

The truth--a hideous spectacle!

- This isn't an interrogation or a trail. Your version of the truth is the only thing that matters. -Truth is singular. It's 'versions' are mistruths.

The truth usually has a slightly ugly look.

In the long run, the most unpleasant truth is a safer companion than a pleasant falsehood.

For the truth is a terrible thing.

But suppose it was truth double strong, it were no truth to me if I couldna take it in. I daresay there's truth in yon Latin book on your shelves; but it's gibberish and no truth to me, unless I know the meaning o' the words.

The truth is what hurts