11 Oscar Wilde Quotes on Truth

Oscar Wilde quotes on truth

5. Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.

8. A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

35. Truth, in the matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.

49. No artist desires to prove anything. Even things that are true can be proved.

98. It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.

121. The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value.

129. Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.

130. If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.

152. The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!

216. I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse.

226. A true friend stabs you in the front