“Alas; they had been friends in youthbut whispering tongues can poison truth”

“Alas, poor gentleman,He look’d not like the ruins of his youthBut like the ruins of those ruins.”

“Alas for those girls who've refused the truth: The sweetest tongue has the sharpest tooth.”

“No coward can be the friend of the truth! Cowards have always been the friends of lies!”

“When he overheard the boys whispering that he was a queer, he said he regarded that as a compliment since so many of the world’s great men had been homosexual. Alas, I’ve been sentenced to a life mundane heterosexuality. I can only hope that a few of you will be more fortunate.”

“The tongue can conceal the truth, but the eyes never! You're asked an unexpected question, you don't even flinch, it takes just a second to get yourself under control, you know just what you have to say to hide the truth, and you speak very convincingly, and nothing in your face twitches to give you away. But the truth, alas, has been disturbed by the question, and it rises up from the depths of your soul to flicker in your eyes and all is lost.”