Ellis Peters Quotes

You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.

Naked Truth needs no shift.

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

When the truth is spoken, it doesn't need to be adorned. It just needs to be simply stated, and often it only needs to be said once.

I always try to find the truth in a situation. That unvarnished, pure nugget of truth at the core of every issue that I write about.

All I've ever done is try to get at the truth of the matter.

I was not out to paint beautiful pictures; even painting good pictures was not important to me. I wanted only to help the truth burst forth.

Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.

The truth is not always what we want to hear.

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.

Geese are but Geese tho' we may think 'em Swans; and Truth will be Truth tho' it sometimes prove mortifying and distasteful.

If you want real truth, I'll tell you real truth, even though I know a lot of people aren't gonna like it.

It is terrible to die of thirst in the ocean. Do you have to salt your truth so heavily that it does not even-quench thirst any more?

It is one thing to wish to have truth on our side, and another to wish sincerely to be on the side of truth.

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

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

I always feel the need to give the unfiltered truth, (or) what I think is the truth, at least.

Bonhoeffer knew that twisting the Truth to sell it more effectively was inexcusable. For Bonhoeffer the challenge was to present the Truth as purely as possible without attempting to help it along or dress it up.

There's just no substitute for the truth.

One can lie, but truth is more interesting.

Tolstoy's so-called inconsistencies were a sign of his development and his passionate regard for truth.

Truth, for its own sake, had never been a virtue with the Roman clergy.

I admire people who just speak the truth.

Transparency is the new objectivity.