Famous Quotes

"You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism."

W. Somerset Maugham on Truth

More quotes about Truth

• "Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth."

  Marcus Aurelius on Truth

• "Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either."

  Albert Einstein on Truth

• "Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth."

  Buddha on Truth

• "I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant."

  Martin Luther King, Jr. on Truth

• "A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."

  Winston Churchill on Truth

More quotes by W. Somerset Maugham

• "Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth."

• "What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories."

• "Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long."

• "The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger."

• "We are not the same persons this year as last nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person."