'T is strange—but true; for truth is always strange:
Stranger than fiction.
Don Juan, Canto XIV. LORD BYRON.
But what is truth? 'T was Pilate's question put
To Truth itself, that deigned him no reply.
The. Task, Bk. III. W. COWPER.
The sages say, Dame Truth delights to dwell
(Strange mansion!) in the bottom of a well:
Questions are then the windlass and the rope
That pull the grave old Gentlewoman up,
Birthday Ode. J. WOLCOTT (Peter Pindar).
Get but the truth once uttered, and 't is like
A star new-born that drops into its place
And which, once circling in its placid round,
Not all the tumult of the earth can shake.
Glance Behind the Curtain. J.R. LOWELL.
TYRANNY.
So spake the Fiend, and with necessity,
The tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deeds.
Paradise Lost, Bk. IV. MILTON.
Tyranny
Absolves all faith; and who invades our rights,
Howe'er his own commence, can never be
But an usurper.
Gustavus Vasa, Act iv. Sc. 1. H. BROOKE.
Tyranny
Is far the worst of treasons. Dost thou deem
None rebels except subjects? The prince who
Neglects or violates his trust is more
A brigand than the robber-chief.
The Two Foscari, Act ii. Sc. 1. LORD BYRON.
Slaves would be tyrants if the chance were theirs.
The Vanished City. V. HUGO.
'Twixt kings and tyrants there's this difference known:
Kings seek their subjects' good, tyrants their owne.
Kings and Tyrants. R. HERRICK.