Dirty Truth Quotes

#1. The dirty truth is that many people find fascism to be not particularly horrible.

Michael Parenti

#2. Ink is the cosmetic that ideas will wear when they go out in public. Graphite is their dirty truth.

Henry Petroski

#3. Maintaining silence about a dirty truth is another way of lying, a common practice in high places.

Michael Parenti

#4. You know, the truth isn't hard to find, if you're willing to get your hands dirty. Truth waits just under the surface for any man brave enough to scrape a little dirt away. But most people are too afraid or too lazy to get dirty. They're afraid to ask the right questions. The hard questions.

Greg Iles

#5. The dirty truth is that the rich are the great cause of poverty.

Michael Parenti

#6. Lovers of truth do not fear stormy or dirty water. What we fear is shallow water!

Friedrich Nietzsche

#7. But fairytales were, at best, dirty mirrors whose warped and pitted surfaces reflected a highly distorted view of the truth, quite different from reality.

Nenia Campbell

#8. Dirty hands can no longer redeem in the hour of truth.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#9. A bit of a dirty fighter, quick with cutting words that he later regrets and doesn't really mean. Then again, I wonder if there isn't always a grain of truth in them, somewhere

Emily Giffin

#10. If you find my stories dirty, the society you are living in is dirty. With my stories, I only expose the truth

Saadat Hasan Manto

#11. Natural gas has been sold as clean energy. But when the gas comes from fracturing bedrock with about five million gallons of toxic water per well, the word "clean" takes on a disturbingly Orwellian tone. Don't be fooled. Fracking for shale gas is in truth dirty energy.

Sean Lennon

#12. I hammered on the Poes' front door like Alaric on the gates of Rome. Poe said that a gaudy figure of speech was a silk cravat around a dirty neck. He didn't say whether the truth lay in the plain thing or in its fancy.

Norman Lock

#13. The desperate truth of Lolita's story is not the rape of a twelve-year-old by a dirty old man but the confiscation of one individual's life by another.

Azar Nafisi

#14. I am a woman. Not a damp puzzle piece to toy with by your dirty hands. I am a woman. Nothing less, attempting to piece together her truth.

Brandi Gomez

#15. I don't know" means "NO!"
"I don't know" means "I'm too cowardly to tell you the truth because I can't deal with confrontation."
"I don't know" means please do the dirty work for me because I don't want to hurt your feelings even more then I already have.

Greg Behrendt

#16. OUT of that moment Jesus was nailed to his cross flowed our attempts to represent it, to create a narrative that could contain it. Yet the body, hanging there, is still, simply, terrible. Caravaggio's genius was to paint Jesus with dirty feet, to bring him back down to earth.

Nick Flynn

#17. It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#18. Truth will never shine from a heart filled with corruption and lies.

Suzy Kassem

#19. Telling the truth can be a dirty job.

Francesca Marciano

#20. You can tell a true war story if it embarrasses you. If you don't care for obscenity, you don't care for the truth; if you don't care for the truth, watch how you vote. Send guys to war, they come home talking dirty.

Tim O'Brien

#21. Honesty can be a dirty gift. It can muddy a sparkling stream of memories.

Colin Cotterill

#22. Half the lies I tell are not true. To tell you the truth, half the true tales I tell are lies.

Jack Thanatos

#23. Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters

Friedrich Nietzsche

#24. I used to think that people are were supposed to be more strange, and dirty, and full of all sorts of emotions, pity and nobility, with infinite layers of complications.

Banana Yoshimoto

#25. But now the train had finally begun to move, and Albie had switched the fearless truth-telling eye of his camera lens from his untied laces to the walls of the tunnels under east London, because you can never have enough pictures of dirty concrete.

David Nicholls

#26. It's a dirty little secret that most New Yorkers are pleasant, thoughtful, patient, and polite. The Chamber of Commerce must work overtime to maintain the surly, off-putting image that is widely believed to define the city. In truth, niceness is nearly epidemic in this town.

Judith Kelman

#27. Honesty can be a dirty gift.

Colin Cotterill

#28. All relaxation does is allow the truth to be felt. The mind is cleared, like a dirty window wiped clean, and the magnitude of what we might ordinarily take for granted inspires tears.

Jay Michaelson

#29. Dirty or clean, crumpled or finely creased, you are still priceless to those who Love you.

Norlito Baclayen

#30. If you play with dirt, no matter if you win or lose, either way you will get dirty.

Debasish Mridha

#31. You have a foul mouth. And to think you kiss your children with it." "According to my mates, my mouth is perfect. And there's nothing dirty about telling the truth.

Eve Langlais

#32. Here is a dirty little secret: Stock-picking is wildly overrated. Sure, it makes for great cocktail party chatter, and what is more fun than delving into a company's new products? But the truth is that individual stocks are riskier than broad indices.

Barry Ritholtz

#33. Unspoken questions shine from her eyes, but I don't have the answers she wants to hear. All I have is the truth, the why, and it's ugly. She might've thought she liked it dirty, but she doesn't know dirty. She can't know it, unless she has lived it. Unless she is it.

J.M. Darhower