Best truth-is & fancy Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The truth is, that the greatest enemies to the doctrines of Jesus are those, calling themselves the expositors of them, who have perverted them for the structure of a system of fancy absolutely incomprehensible, and without any foundation in His genuine words.”

Jesus Enemy Calling Truth Is Foundation Structure Genuine Doctrine Fancy Church And State Founding Fathers Christian Founding Fathers Religion Religion God Founding Fathers Anti Religion Christianity From Founding Fathers Deist

Book:Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson

Source: Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson

“Truth is far and flat, and fancy is fiery; and truth is cold, and people feel the cold, and they may wrap themselves against it in fancies that are fiery, but they should not call them facts; and, generally, poets do not; they are shrewd, they feel the cold, too, but they know a hawk from a handsaw, a fact from a fancy, as none knows better.”

People Knows Feels Should May Facts Poet Cold Truth Is Fancy Flats Wraps Fiery Hawks

Author:Stevie Smith

“The worst service, I fancy, that anyone can do for truth, is to set silly people writing on its behalf.”

People Writing Can Do Worst Truth Is Silly Fancy Behalf Silly People

Author:George Eliot

“It is a curious fact, but a fact it is, that your witty people are the most hard-hearted in the world. The truth is, fancy destroys feeling. The quick eye to the ridiculous turns every thing to the absurd side; and the neat sentence, the lively allusion, and the odd simile, invest what they touch with something of their own buoyant nature. Humor is of the heart, and has its tears; but wit is of the head, and has only smiles - and the majority of those are bitter.”

Source: The Complete Works of L. E. Landon: Containing Romance and Reality, Francesca Carrara, Traits and Trials of Early Life, Ethel Church, the Book of Beauty, Improvisatrice, the Troubadour, Venetian Bracelet, Golden Violet, Vow of the Peacock, Easter Gift, &c., &c

“You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal. For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.”

Facts Truth Honesty Truth Is News Fancy Contests Good News Sucker Disagreeable Vernacular

Author:Adlai E. Stevenson

“Truth is a well-known pathological liar. It invariably turns out to be Fiction wearing a fancy frock. Self-proclaimed Fiction, on the other hand, is entirely honest. You can tell this, because it comes right out and says, "I'm a Liar," right there on the dust jacket.”

Wells Self Hands Turns Fiction Known Honest Truth Is Dust Fancy Liars Well Known Jackets Pathological Liar

Author:Alan Moore

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