George Eliot Quotes

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

Say what is true, although what may be bitter and displeasing to people.

People can choose between the sweet lie or the bitter truth. I say the bitter truth, but many people don't want to hear it.

We shall seek first to tell the truth rather than to study the subtle art of adjusting it to the circumstances of time and person.

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

Naked Truth needs no shift.

Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.

The truth doesn't hurt unless it ought to.

I feel that if I'm writing a book, it has to be an honest book: it has to say what I believe to be the truth, so that's kind of warts and all.

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.

When I speak, I speak facts, and if you're getting mad, it's because you know it's the truth.

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

The ugliest truth, in the end, was still better than the prettiest of lies.

Homely truth is unpalatable.

One can lie, but truth is more interesting.

I don't believe in dressing up reality. I don't believe in using makeup to make things look smoother.

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.

I try to be honest.

Right now, it's really about my fans knowing that whatever I believed spiritually at the time is what I believed. I just wouldn't deliberately lie to them just to save my image.

Well, the truth is always what should be told. And the truth and the knowledge of the truth is what everybody should represent, regardless of the consequences of doing it.

If people could be as honest as animals, what a different world it would be.

We are really the conveyors of truth in a very critical time and people need to know that truth.

Living in truth cannot be reduced to having access to full information.

Why lie? I'm not going to be a hypocrite and say the opposite of what I think, like some others do.

I don't want to lie. I dislike dishonesty. And I work in Hollywood, a town and a business that relies on a lot of falsehoods with people hiding behind different facades. I don't want to be a part of that.