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Oscar Wilde Quotes about Truth

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We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.

We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.

Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.819, GENERAL PRESS

Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

"The Critic as Artist". Book by Oscar Wilde, 1891.

A truth ceases to be true when more than one person believes in it.

"Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young" (1894)

If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.

Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.197, Wordsworth Editions

Every thing to be true must become a religion.

Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.98, Oxford University Press on Demand

Truth is independent of facts always.

Oscar Wilde (2015). “The truth of masks 1891”, p.22, Oscar Wilde