Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes

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

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

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

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.

Grey hairs, like honest friends, are plucked out and cast aside for telling unpleasant truths.

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

Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.

Telling the truth and making someone cry is better than telling a lie and making someone smile.

People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up.

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

I don't lie. I would never stuff my bra because it's going to come off and the truth is going to be revealed. I don't like that padding. I try to be completely - if not brutally - honest.

I'd rather get bad news from an honest man than lies from a flatterer.

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.

Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.

I'm a fan of the truth... even if it's painfully hard to accept.

There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth.

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

I would love to say how nice it is to see you again, but that would be a lie. And I am nothing if not honest.

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

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

Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.

We cannot teach children the danger of telling lies to men without realising, on the man's part, the danger of telling lies to children. A single untruth on the part of the master will destroy the results of his education.

Sometimes honesty can be incredibly messy

I hate when things are sugar-coated. I'd rather have the ugliest truth than the best lie.