Rather a bitter truth than a sweet lie.
Most jokes state a bitter truth.
Nothing tastes more bitter than the truth.
There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
Sugar candy tasted better than bitter truth.
Sometimes love tries to do too much.
The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.
Truth is the most bitter to accept, swallow and digest it. The moment you speak truth, you lose your popularity. But I don't care.
Just because other people think something, that doesn't make it true. Maybe there's some truth in that, but it's unsatisfying, bitter-tasting truth.
Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don't go away, they just echo around.
The truth may make you bitter; but it must make you better.
The fruit of empty hopes is more bitter than the saddest truth.
The bitterness of studying is preferable to the bitterness of ignorance.
It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness.
We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.
Bitter though it may be to many, Cadfael concluded, there is no substitute for truth, in this or any case.
A bitter reality of truth can be wisely told in a sweet tale of lullaby.
Give me sweet lies, and keep your bitter truths.
So rather than face the bitter truth, China has placed severe restrictions on the Internet and enlisted America's high-tech companies as their Internet police.
Sorrow on another's face often looks like coldness, bitterness, resentment, unfriendliness, apathy, disdain, or disinterest when it is in truth purely sadness.
You can either control yourself by simple two lines of bitter truth , OR by confusing yourself in long stories to comfort with a lie
