Lord Byron - Truth Quotes

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"Bring forth the horse!" — the horse was brought;
In truth, he was a noble steed,
A Tartar of the Ukraine breed,
Who look'd as though the speed of thought
Were in his limbs.

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And, after all, what is a Lie? 'Tis but
The truth in masquerade. And I defy
Historian — heroes — lawyers — priests, to put
A fact without some leaven of a lie.

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The antique Persians taught three useful things — To draw the bow, to ride, and speak the truth.

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No words suffice the secret soul to show,
For truth denies all eloquence to woe.

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Now my sere fancy 'falls into the yellow
Leaf,' and imagination droops her pinion,
And the sad truth which hovers o'er my desk
Turns what was once romantic to burlesque.

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What is hope? nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.

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Opinions are made to be changed—or how is truth to be got at?

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Yet truth will sometimes lend her noblest fires,
And decorate the verse herself inspires:
This fact, in virtue's name, let Crabbe attest,—
Though Nature's sternest painter, yet the best.

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Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the most
Must mourn the deepest o'er the fatal truth,
The Tree of Knowledge is not that of Life.

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Now what I love in women is, they won't Or can't do otherwise than lie, but do it. So well, the very truth seems falsehood to it.

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'Tis strange—but true; for truth is always strange;
Stranger than fiction.

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Tis strange,-but true; for truth is always strange; Stranger than fiction: if it could be told, How much would novels gain by the exchange! How differently the world would men behold!

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Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion.

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