Agnes Repplier Quotes

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

Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.

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

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

The truth is messy. It's raw and uncomfortable. You can't blame people for preferring lies.

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

Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.

I think brutal honesty is extremely important. Don't be afraid of being up-front about your feelings and your life.

In real life, I'm so brutally honest that it almost works against me sometimes.

Too much truth is uncouth.

Well, I think sometimes I am brutally honest.

I just tell the truth. Some people don't like it. Some people do.

My mom has this thing where she doesn't sugarcoat stuff.

You know me: I'm always down to be brutally honest.

I'm brutally honest with people.

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.

The truth, huh? No one wants to hear the truth. The truth is never sexy. But you... You are too goddamned sexy to be real. -Christian to Lissa

I don't care if you're obscene, filthy, horrendous -- as long as you're honest.

I don't mean to be insolent. I'm truthful. I tell the truth and the truth sometimes hurts. For instance, you have bad breath, Lieutenant. I can smell it from here. It must offend a lot of people. That's the truth. But how many people have told you that? Instead, they either lie or try to avoid your company.

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.

Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.

They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth.

You’re going to get what I think is the truth, and it’s going to be raw.

Say the truth even if it may be bitter.

They're only words. You can't be afraid of words that speak the truth, even if it's an unpleasant truth.