: I am sick of the disparity between things as they are and as they should be. I'm tired.I'm tired of the truth and I'm tired of lying about the truth.

-Albee, Edward Franklin, III
  BESSIE1960  The Death of Bessie Smith.

It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.

-Angelou, Maya originally MayaJohnson
  On  Africa. In the NewYork Times,16  Apr.

I am innocent of the charge, and nothing you will say however clever you are in the wording of out-of-context pieces, however clever you are in letting people know what 'on and off the record'means, there is only one thing that mattersinthis court of law, sir: Ihavenever had sexual intercourse with her. And that is the truth!

-Archer,Jeffrey Howard, Lord
Giving evidence at a libel trial in1987. Quoted in Michael Crick Jeffrey  Archer: Stranger than Fiction (1996).

Amicus Plato, sed magis amica veritas. Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

-Aristotle
Proverbial expression, traditionally attributed to  Aristotle, going back to a passage in the Ethica Nicomachea,1069a. English  cricket  commentator  and  writer,  a  police  detective before  joining  the BBC  in 1945.  His  voice became  the  epitome of radio cricket commentary.

Itcontains a misleading impression, not a lie.It was being economical with the truth.

-Armstrong, Robert, Baron Armstrong of Ilminster
  On a letter, during cross-examination at the'Spycatcher' trial, New South Wales,  Australia, quoted in the Daily Telegraph, 19 Nov.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

-Arnold, Matthew
  Poems:  A New Edition,'Sohrab and Rustum', l.656.

For rigorous teachers seized my youth, And other its faith, and trimmed its fire, Showed me the high, white star of Truth, There bade me gaze, and there aspire.

-Arnold, Matthew
  Poems: Second Series,'Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse', l.67^70.

This truthöto prove, and make thine own: 'Thou hast been, shalt be, art, alone.'

-Arnold, Matthew
  'Isolation. To Marguerite', l.29-30.

O tell me the truth about love. When it comes, will it come without warning Just as I'm picking my nose? Will it knock on my door in the morning, Or tread in the bus on my toes?

-Auden,W(ystan) H(ugh)
  'Twelve Poems', section12.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

-Austen,Jane
  Pride and Prejudice, ch.1, opening lines.

  Sentences which simply express moral judgements do not say anything. Theyare pure expressions of feeling and as such donot come under the categoryof truth and falsehood.

-Ayer, SirAlfred Jules
  Language, Truth and Logic, ch.6.

So let great authors have their due, as time, which is the author of authors, be not deprived of his due, which is further and further to discover the truth.

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans
  The Advancement of Learning, bk.1, ch.4, section12.

What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans
  Essays, no.1,'Of  Truth'.

The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans
  Essays, no.1,'Of  Truth'.

It had been hard for him that spake it to have put more truth and untruth together, in a few words, than in that speech: 'Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast, or a god.'

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans
  Essays, no.27,'Of Friendship'.

There are two modes of acquiring knowledge, namely, by reasoning and experience. Reasoning draws a conclusion and makes us grant the conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, nor does it remove doubt so that the mind may rest on the intuition of truth unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.

-Bacon, Roger known as Doctor Mirabilis
  Opus Majus (translated by Robert Belle Burke,1928).

A platitude is simply a truth repeated until people get tired of hearing it.

-Baldwin (of Bewdley), Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl
  Speech in the House of Commons, 29 May.

It hasalwaysbeendesirabletotell thetruth, but seldomif ever necessary to tell the whole truth.

-Balfour, ArthurJames Balfour, 1st Earl
Attributed.

There are two kinds of truth†real truths and made-up truths.

-Barry, Marion Shepilov,Jr
  Of the drug charges lodged against him. In the Washington Post,13 May.

L'imagination est la reine du vrai, et le possible est une des provinces du vrai. Imagination is the queen of the truth and the possible is one of the provinces of the truth.

-Baudelaire, Charles
  Le Spleen de Paris,'Salon de1859', pt.3.