Tom Stoppard Truth Quotations

All your life, you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye. And when something nudges it into outline, it is like being ambushed by a grotesque.

The truth of the matter is that I used to be much more - as it were - shy. Now I don't care!

My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.

The truth is always a compound of two half-truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say

It's so great in the theater when everyone catches up on the truth.

It is better to be quotable than to be honest.

The truth is, we value your company, for want of any other. We have been left so much to our own devices—after a while one welcomes the uncertainty of being left to other people's.

There is truth and falsehood in a comma.

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.