A real, honest, old-fashioned Boarding-school, where a reasonable quantity of accomplishments were sold at a reasonable price, and where girlsmight be sent to be out of the wayand scramblethemselves into a little education, without any danger of coming back prodigies.

-Austen,Jane
  Emma, ch.3.

There are two kinds of truth†real truths and made-up truths.

-Barry, Marion Shepilov,Jr
  Of the drug charges lodged against him. In the Washington Post,13 May.

Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real. Love, and so art and morals, is the discovery of reality.

-Murray, Les(lie Allan)
  'The Sublime and the Good'.

Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about? Theyare more true: theyare the only things that are true.

-Shaw, George Bernard
  Marchbanks to Morell. Candida, act1.

Thereal priceofeverything, whateverything reallycosts to themanwho wants to acquire it, isthetoil and trouble of acquiring it. Labour was the first price, the original purchase money that was paid for all things.

-Smith, Adam
  An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of theWealth of Nations, bk.1, ch.5.

   There are two kinds of Arctic problems, the imaginary and the real.Of the two, the imaginary are the most real.

-Stefansson,Vilhjalmur
  TheArctic in Fact and Fable.

   Religion issomething which stands beyond, behind, and within the passing flux of immediate things; something which is real, and yet waiting to be realized; something which is a remote possibility, and yet the greatest of present facts; something that gives meaning to all that passes, and yet eludes apprehension; something whose possession is the final good, and yet is beyond all reach; something which is the ultimate ideal, and the hopeless quest.

-Whitehead, Alfred North
  Science and the ModernWorld.