Beauty is truth, truth beauty; that is all (from a poem by Keats)
Children and fools tell the truth
Economical with the truth
Face the truth
Gospel truth
Grain of truth
Home truth
I swear to tell the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything (Mark Twain quotation)
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife (the opening line of Pride and Prejudice)
Kernel of truth
Less than the truth
Naked truth
Sniff out the truth
Stranger to the truth
Tell the truth and shame the Devil
The Truth (Nickname of Carl Williams)
The Truth (Nickname of Paul Pierce)
The moment of truth
The naked truth
The truth hurts
The truth is out there (A catchphrase from The X-Files)
The truth is rarely pure and never simple (Oscar Wilde quotation)
The truth shall set you free
The truth will out
Truth is stranger than fiction
When war is declared, truth is the first casualty
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth
While you live, tell truth and shame the Devil!
Will the real … stand up? (A catchphrase from To Tell The Truth)
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife (the opening line of Pride and Prejudice)
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