Stubborn Facts Quotes

I know that some endeavor to throw the mantle of romance over the subject and treat woman like some ideal existence, not liable to the ills of life. Let those deal in fancy who have nothing better to deal in; we have to do with sober, sad realities, with stubborn facts.

… facts are like cows. If you stare them in the face hard enough, they generally run away.

Facts are stupid things — stubborn things, I should say.

Facts are stubborn things, but, as some one has wisely said, not half so stubborn as fallacies.

You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. The facts of life are very stubborn things.

doubts, like facts, are stubborn things.

The facts of life are very stubborn things.

But self-satisfaction, if as buoyant as gas, has an ugly trick of collapsing when full blown, and facts are stony things that refuse to melt away in the sunshine of a smile.