People think that because a novel's invented, it isn't true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Biography and memoirs can never be wholly true, since they cannot include every conceivable circumstance of what happened. The novel can do that.
Anthony Powell

Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

Racial and denominational schools impart to the membership of their communities something which the general educational institution is wholly unable to inculcate.
Kelly Millar

That no government, so called, can reasonably be trusted, or reasonably be supposed to have honest purposes in view, any longer than it depends wholly upon voluntary support.
Lysander Spooner

The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner.
Bela Lugosi

The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture.
John Kenneth Galbraith

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.
P. G. Wodehouse

The first pages of memory are like the old family Bible. The first leaves are wholly faded and somewhat soiled with handling. But, when we turn further, and come to the chapters where Adam and Eve were banished from Paradise, then, all begins to grow clear and legible.
Max Muller

The former conviction that these two kingdoms were wholly different in structure, in function, and in kind of life, was not seriously disturbed by the difficulties which the naturalist encountered when he undertook to define them.
Asa Gray

The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we ever reach a plane of detachment regarding our parents, however wise and old we may become. To pretend otherwise is to cheat.
John le Carre

The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.
Rene Descartes

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
Thomas Paine

The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others.
Herbert Samuel

The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others.
Herbert Samual

The writer's joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly become a thought.
Thomas Mann

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.
Henry David Thoreau

There are no other Everglades in the world. They are, they have always been, one of the unique regions of the earth; remote, never wholly known. Nothing anywhere else is like them.
Marjory Stoneman Douglas

There are unknown forces in nature; when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she lends them to us; she shows us these forms, which our watching eyes do not see, which our intelligence does not understand or suspect.
Auguste Rodin

There is a passion for perfection which you will rarely see fully developed; but you may note this fact, that in successful lives it is never wholly lacking.
Bliss Carman

There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.
Mohandas Gandhi