Harsh Truth Quotes:

Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie.

- Robert Breault

topic: Lying, Real, Cherish, Wonderful Friendship, Friendship Garden

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

- Mark Twain

topic: Life, Funny Inspirational, Honesty, Way In Life, Trustworthiness

If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory!

- Mark Twain

topic: Memories, Needs, Good Memories, Way In Life, Being Truthful

Inevitably we look upon society, so kind to you, so harsh to us, as an ill-fitting form that distorts the truth; deforms the mind; fetters the will.

- Virginia Woolf

source: Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.859, Wordsworth Editions

topic: Sex, Mind, Looks, Harsh Truth

Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.

- Robert Breault

topic: Positive, Truth, Honesty, Being Truthful, Kindness And Compassion

If you tell the truth, you don't need a long memory.

- Jesse Ventura

topic: Truth, Memories, Long, Way In Life, Inspirational Change

No. Harsh truth was better than comfortable lies. It had to be.

- Kelley Armstrong

source: Kelley Armstrong (2009). “The Awakening”, p.39, Harper Collins

topic: Lying, Deceit, Harsh, Harsh Truth

I will be as harsh as truth, and uncompromising as justice... I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard.

- William Lloyd Garrison

topic: Justice, Retreat, Excuse, Abolition, Respectability

The harsh truth is, most red-haired men look like blondes who've spoiled from lack of refrigeration. They look like brown-haired men who've been composted out behind the barn. Yet that same pigmentation that on a man can resemble leaf mold or junkyard rust, a woman wears like a tiara of rubies.

- Tom Robbins

source: Tom Robbins (2006). “Wild Ducks Flying Backward”, p.75, Bantam

topic: Men, Mold, Barns, Junkyard, Tiaras

I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice.

- William Lloyd Garrison

topic: Truth, Justice, Harsh, Earnestness, Abolitionist

Dear me. Such harsh truths so early in the morning cannot be good for the digestion.

- Cassandra Clare

source: Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.115, Simon and Schuster

topic: Morning, Digestion, Harsh, Clockwork Angel, William Herondale

Jessamine recoiled from the paper as if it were a snake. "A lady does not read the newspaper. The society pages, perhaps, or the theater news. Not this filth." "But you are not a lady, Jessamine---," Charlotte began. "Dear me," said Will. "Such harsh truths so early in the morning cannot be good for the digestion.

- Cassandra Clare

source: Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Angel”, p.115, Simon and Schuster

topic: Morning, Snakes, Doe, Charlotte, Clockwork Angel

If you don't want anyone to know about your existence, you might as well kill yourself. You're taking up space, air.

- Dave Eggers

source: Dave Eggers (2000). “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius”

topic: Air, Space, Want, Killing Yourself, Harsh Truth

As sure as water's wet and days are long and a friend will always disappoint you in the end.

- Neil Gaiman

topic: Life, Long, Water, American Gods, Harsh Truth