“No man can bear to live with a woman who speaks nothing but the truth to him.”

“Any woman or man who would write the truth of their lives would write a great work. But no one has dared to write the truth of their lives.”

Isadora Duncan (1877–1927) American dancer and choreographer

“For the only way one can speak of nothing is to speak of it as though it were something, just as the only way one can speak of God is to speak of him as though he were a man, which to be sure he was, in a sense, for a time, and as the only way one can speak of man, even our anthropologists have realized that, is to speak of him as though he were a termite.”

Samuel Beckett book Watt

“It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.”

Henry Ward Beecher (1813–1887) American clergyman and activist

“The truth is, you can never really know a man until you've loaned him money. And you can never know a woman until you've slept in her bed.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

“Gwendolen, it is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. Can you forgive me?”

Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

“Give me a man who is man enough to give himself just to the woman who is worth him. If that woman were me, I would love him alone and forever”

Giacomo Casanova (1725–1798) Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice

“There are who separate the eternal light
In forms of man and woman, day and night;
They cannot bear that God be essence quite.”

Margaret Fuller (1810–1850) American feminist, poet, author, and activist

“I must speak the truth, and nothing but the truth.”

Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright

“To speak a truth that belongs to another is untruth, for speaking belongs to living, hence to speak another’s truth is to live a life that is not one’s own.”

David L. Norton (1930–1995) American philosopher