Rafael Sabatini Quotes

Homely truth is unpalatable.

No one wants to hear the truth if it isn't what they want to hear.

Truth is scary. Truth has bad breath at times

The truth is a bully we all pretend to like

What ails the truth is that it is mainly uncomfortable, and often dull. The human mind seeks something more amusing, and more caressing.

You know the problem, we don't want to believe what we know.

The thing about the truth is, not a lot of people can handle it.

People can choose between the sweet lie or the bitter truth. I say the bitter truth, but many people don't want to hear it.

Truth is a rough, honest, helter-skelter terrier that none like to see brought into their drawing rooms.

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.

What I do is create a lens through my work that corrects my readers' cognitive dissonance and says: you will see all of it - not what you want or what makes you comfortable, but all of it. And you will not erase what displeases you.

The life of truth is cold.

Upon my word, I think the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with.

Some truth has no nourishment in it.

The only part of you that hurts when you're given the truth is the part that lives on lies.

The truth is the only way that we can get anywhere.

Truth is that which affirms propositionally the nature of reality as it is.

The truth is like a scalpel. The truth is painful.

The truth is ugly: we have art so as not to perish from the truth.

Many people find bald, unvarnished truths so disturbing, they prefer to ram their heads in the sand and start dreaming at the first sign of scientific reality.

Truth is an all-freeing mechanism.

The truth frequently seems unreasonable; the truth frequently is depressing; the truth sometimes seems to be evil, but it has the eternal advantage, it is the truth and what is built thereon neither brings nor yields to confusion.

"Comfort" is no test of truth; on the contrary, truth is often far from being "comfortable".

The truth is messy. It's raw and uncomfortable. You can't blame people for preferring lies.

Truth is often uncomfortable. It is only comforting to those who do not wish to ignore it. Then, truth becomes not only comforting, but inspiring.