"Truthful" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... not nice at all," he grumbled; "the one thing I wanted, and, to be very truthful, ...
— The Man Who Knew • Edgar Wallace
... soil. Let us be satirized, ridiculed, laughed at, caricatured, anything, so that we may be shamed out of all that is absurd and vicious in our habits and customs. In the present instance our Western kinsmen are described by one, if they will believe his own testimony, of the most candid and truthful of travellers,—one who has viewed them and all their institutions, except one, with the most friendly eye, and who deeply regrets that so much of what is lovely and of good report should be marred and blotted by so much of what is disgraceful to ...
— American Scenes, and Christian Slavery - A Recent Tour of Four Thousand Miles in the United States • Ebenezer Davies
... had very little faith in human nature, but Anna's eyes were both truthful and desperate. He gave ...
— Dangerous Days • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... why she had not been more frequently to Lenten services, excused herself in this fashion, severe, but truthful: "Oh, Dr. —— is on such intimate terms with the Almighty ...
— The Wit of Women - Fourth Edition • Kate Sanborn
... not born all at once, nor is it necessary it should be. The voice of nature is a voice rather poetical than truthful. The affection of children is earned and deserved; it is a consequence, not a cause, and gratitude is its commencement. At any cost, therefore, your baby must be made grateful. Do not reckon that he will be grateful to you for your solicitude, your dreams for his future, the cost of his nursing, ...
— Monsieur, Madame and Bebe, Complete • Gustave Droz
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