Laura Riding Quotes

Things that are real are given and received in silence.

Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.

Where the streame runneth smoothest, the water is deepest.

Only silence communicates the truth as it is.

The Truth never flaunted a sign.

Bitter though it may be to many, Cadfael concluded, there is no substitute for truth, in this or any case.

And isn't it a bad thing to be deceived about the truth, and a good thing to know what the truth is? For I assume that by knowing the truth you mean knowing things as they really are.

When you're being real, that's endearing to an audience. When you're not being real and you're making jumps to things that don't really follow how they would in reality, people don't appreciate that.

Everything I wrote was true because I believed what I saw.

Everything that is true is authentic.

Oh its real, its damn real

All I would ask you to be thinking of is the truth and not Socrates.

Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented.

The true is inimitable, the false untransformable.

Where shall the word be found, where will the word / Resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.

Give me truth; cheat me by no illusion.

If you want to be true to life, start lying about it

Off-camera lives are unverifiable.

Write about the truth. If you write about the truth, somebody's living that. Not just somebody, there's a lot of people.

When all lies, deceit, pretense is stripped away, what remains? The truth of a painting, or a book or a man.

La ve rite existe; on n'invente que le mensonge. Truth exists; only lies are invented.

There is no conflict between the Old and the New; the conflict is between the False and the True.

There are many justifications of silence; there can be none of insincerity.

I prefer nothing, unless it is true.

I am the truth, since I am part of what is real, but neither more nor less than those around me.