“For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.”– Samuel Butler Related Quotes “When i tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.”— William Blake “Boredom: the desire for desires.”— Leo Tolstoy “Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life.”– A. N. Wilson