Skip to content

Theodore Watts-Dunton on Honesty

1832–1914 England

← All quotes by Theodore Watts-Dunton

1 quote

When hope lies dead—ah, when 'tis death to live,
And wrongs remembered make the heart still bleed,
Better are Sleep's kind lies for Life's blind need
Than truth, if lies a little peace can give.

The Coming of Love and Other Poems (1897)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Theodore Watts-Dunton (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.