“Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.”
The Little Foxes (1939)
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W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965) British playwright, novelist, short story writer
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“Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.”
Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister
Book IV, Chapter 6.
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“She is not one to disdain truth indefinitely only because it is unpleasant.”
Glen Cook book The White Rose
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“Congress should reject that cynicism in defense of historical truth.”
Bruce Fein (1947) American lawyer
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Stacy McGaugh (1964) American astronomer
[Stacy McGaugh, http://astroweb.case.edu/ssm/mond/inthon.html, "Intellectual Honesty, The Mond Pages"] at astroweb.case.edu. Accessed 2014.
“It is unpleasant to turn back, though it be to take the right way.”
John Lancaster Spalding (1840–1916) Catholic bishop
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 19
“Isn't that the way of the world? We want the sweet things, but we need the unpleasant ones.”
Patrick Rothfuss book The Name of the Wind
Source: The Name of the Wind