Unadorned Truth Quotes

In an ancient and dead language, any recognition of living nature attracts us. These are such sentences as were written while grass grew and water ran. It is no small recommendation when a book will stand the test of mere unobstructed sunshine and daylight.

The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie.

You don't have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth.

A fancifully fancyless medium of unvarnished news.

Simple honesty is so remarkable a quality. It is of the very essence of Integrity.

Truth shines brightest thro' the plainest dress.

The Sibyl, with frenzied mouth uttering things not to be laughed at, unadorned and unperfumed, yet reaches to a thousand years with her voice by aid of the god.

The truth sticks in our throats with all the sauces it is served with: it will never go down until we take it without any sauce at all.

Everything we're singing about is true, and even when you take away all the glitz, it's still true in the darkest, ugliest and most hopeless places.

My works are the issue of simple and plain experience which is the true mistress.

Truth that is naked is the most beautiful, and the simpler its expression the deeper is the impression it makes.

For just as some women are said to be handsome though without adornment, so this subtle manner of speech, though lacking in artificial graces, delights us.

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

Truth is without flourishes or manners and runs with a logic all its own.

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.

Besides, you want the unvarnished and ungarnished truth, and I'm no hand for that. I'm a lawyer.

Truth, naked, unblushing truth, the first virtue of all serious history, must be the sole recommendation of this personal narrative.

When a man has no design but to speak plain truth, he may say a great deal in a very narrow compass.

Truth that is naked is the most beautiful, and the simpler its expression the deeper is the impression it makes; this is partly because it gets unobstructed hold of the hearer’s mind without his being distracted by secondary thoughts, and partly because he feels that here he is not being corrupted or deceived by the arts of rhetoric, but that the whole effect is got from the thing itself.

Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit.