“Truth can break the gates down, truth can howl in the street; unless truth is pleasing, personable and easy to like, she is condemned to stay whimpering at the back door.”
Source: Bring Up the Bodies
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Hilary Mantel 21
British writer 1952Related quotes
“The truth of human freedom lies in the love that breaks down barriers.”
“Please don't lie to me, unless, you're sure I'll never find out the truth.”
“The truth can wait, for she lives a long life.”
Die Wahrheit kann warten: denn sie hat ein langes Leben vor sich.
Willen in der Natur (On the Will in Nature), 1836; in the chapter Einleitung (Introduction)
Variant translation by Karl Hillebrand:
Truth can bide its time, for it has a long life before it.
Other
“And there are no truths outside the Gates of Eden.”
Song lyrics, Bringing It All Back Home (1965), Gates of Eden
“Wanting to be liked can get in the way of truth.”
Source: Sister Mother Husband Dog: Etc.
“An aphorism can never be the whole truth; it is either a half-truth or a truth-and-a-half.”
Die Fackel no. 270/71 (19 January 1909)
Die Fackel
“If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.”
"That which can be destroyed by the truth, should be." — P. C. Hodgell, in her 1994 novel Seeker's Mask.
Misattributed
Poor envious souls they are that cavil at truth's want in these natural fictions; material instruction, elegant and sententious excitation to virtue, and deflection from her contrary, being the soul, limbs, and limits of an authentical tragedy.
The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois (1613)
“Truth is an arrow, and the gate is narrow that it passes through.”
Song lyrics, Slow Train Coming (1979), When He Returns