Unvarnished Reality Quotes

If we look too closely at many historical figures, we won't like what we see.

How terribly downright must be the utterances of storms and earthquakes to those accustomed to the soft hypocrisies of society.

The man who is really serious, with the urge to find out what truth is, has no style at all. He lives only in what is.

When I speak, I speak facts, and if you're getting mad, it's because you know it's the truth.

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

I feel that if I'm writing a book, it has to be an honest book: it has to say what I believe to be the truth, so that's kind of warts and all.

There's a certain edge about cruelty. If you're honest about it, most people wince, but say it had to be said.

The truth, huh? No one wants to hear the truth. The truth is never sexy. But you... You are too goddamned sexy to be real. -Christian to Lissa

There is nothing so powerful as truth — and often nothing so strange.

Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Say what is true, although what may be bitter and displeasing to people.

Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.

I just tell the truth. Some people don't like it. Some people do.

Sometimes I might say controversial stuff, but it's all Darren Till, and that's the truth.

"Utter truth is essential, and that is what stirs me when I look through the camera."

Where the tongue slips, it speaks the truth.

Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.

'Speak truth unto power'. What does this mean? It means giving your best advice to superiors based on the best information available and objective analysis even when you know it may not be music to their ears

Naked Truth needs no shift.

In a memoir, your main contract with the reader is to tell the truth, no matter how bizarre.

People say they hate having fake people around, but when you keep it real, they hate you even more. People don't like the truth.

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Everything we're singing about is true, and even when you take away all the glitz, it's still true in the darkest, ugliest and most hopeless places.

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.

So much for the myth that motherhood is all Laura Ashley smocks and skipping through fields. People think it's rose-tinted and they don't tell the truth!