Which among the following novelists remarked that falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult? Examine your words well, and you will find that even when you have no motive to be false, it is a very hard thing to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings?”

The correct option is George Eliot.

This famous quotation is from the Victorian novelist George Eliot (the pen name of Mary Ann Evans). It appears in her first full-length novel, Adam Bede, published in 1859. Specifically, the quote can be found in Chapter 17 of the novel, titled "In Which the Story Pauses a Little."

In this chapter, Eliot steps back from the narrative to discuss her literary philosophy of realism. She argues that art should represent life as it is, rather than presenting idealized or romanticized versions of reality. She emphasizes that representing the world truthfully is an incredibly challenging task, writing: "falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult. Examine your words well, and you will find that even when you have no motive to be false, it is a very hard thing to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings—much more to report the details on which the conduct of another depends."