Falsehood Quotes
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That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood.
— Alexander Pope
If you do not love me, say, nonetheless, you do, for on your tongue falsehood for very shame would turn to truth.
— Oscar Wilde
The ultimate truth is penultimately a falsehood.
— Arthur Koestler
Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?
— John Milton
There's something satisfying to proclaiming humility while knowing just how important you truly are.
— Michael R. Fletcher
To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be.
— Frank Herbert
It's a falsehood to state that francophone communities are thriving.
— Gilles Duceppe
To lie is always a necessity for women; above all when they choose to deceive, falsehood becomes vital to them.
— Marquis De Sade
So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.
— Hosea Ballou
All err the more dangerously because each follows a truth. Their mistake lies not in following a falsehood but in not following another truth.
— Blaise Pascal
Human truth is always soiled with falsehood.
— Austin O'Malley
Falsehood of a good man is better than truth of a bad one.
— Raheel Farooq
Truth and falsehood are opposed; but truth is the norm not of truth only but of falsehood also.
— C.S. Lewis
Reason will always be logical, Logic not always reasonable,
For truth from reason derivable,
And logic falsehood multipliable. — Munindra Misra
On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
— Matthew Arnold
Rest assured, as long as I am alive any book purporting to be with my cooperation is a falsehood,
— Harper Lee
Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.
— George Eliot
There has never been nationhood without falsehood.
— Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
As ten millions of circles can never make a square, so the united voice of myriads cannot lend the smallest foundation to falsehood.
— Oliver Goldsmith
Arguments cannot be answered by personal abuse; there is no logic in slander, and falsehood, in the long run, defeats itself.
— Robert G. Ingersoll
Indiscretion, rashness, falsehood, levity, and malice, produce each other.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!
— Edith Wharton
The notion that you can endanger your physical and mental health by letting strong passions go unsatisfied is a vicious falsehood.
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
I am sure, zeal or love for truth can never permit falsehood to be used in the defense of it.
— John Locke
Falsehood is for a season.
— Walter Savage Landor
Fire destroys falsehood, that is sophistry, and restores truth, driving out darkness.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
If thou trusteth to the book called the Scriptures, thou trusteth to the rotten staff of fables and falsehood.
— Thomas Paine
Truth is always strong, no matter how weak it looks, and falsehood is always weak, no matter how strong it looks.
— Phillips Brooks
Better is the wrong with sincerity, rather than the right with falsehood.
— Martin Farquhar Tupper
Falsehood is not more unjustifiable than unsafe.
— Fanny Burney
When one with honeyed words but evil mindPersuades the mob, great woes befall the state. — Euripides
Who begins with severity, in judging of another, ends commonly with falsehood.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
Who speaks the truth stabs falsehood to the heart.
— James Russell Lowell
All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.
— Robert Southey
But he that sows lies in the end shall not lack of a harvest, and soon he may rest from toil indeed, while others reap and sow in his stead.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
The besetting danger is not so much of embracing falsehood for truth, as of mistaking a part of the truth for the whole.
— John Stuart Mill
Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Like the juggler, deceiving by his tricks, one is deluded by egotism, falsehood and illusion.
— Guru Nanak
When a falsehood is coveted long enough, it becomes the truth that sustains its own existence.
— E.B. Hudspeth
Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.
— James Russell Lowell
False humility is quite like the worst of both worlds: both that of Meekness and that of Conceit.
— Criss Jami
We never deceive people to benefit them, for knavery is a compound of wickedness and falsehood.
— Jean De La Bruyere
I will take all my rights! Can you deliver them to my house?
— Ljupka Cvetanova
A divine falsehood is more powerful than any human truth.
— Mikhail Bakunin
Truth never turns to rebuke falsehood; her own straightforwardness is the severest correction.
— Henry David Thoreau
Dishonor waits on perfidy. A man should blush to think a falsehood; it is the crime of cowards.
— Samuel Johnson
truth and falsehood mingle in life - and to what God builds, man adds his own decoration.
— Rabindranath Tagore
Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.
— Jean De La Fontaine
We are living in the falsehood due to the erroneous teachings of the society, community and the bordered nations.
— Vishal Chipkar
We aim above the mark, to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth, though, is nothing in the face of self-falsehood, and principles are of no value if the idealist cannot live up to his own standards.
— R.A. Salvatore
I fear the day when the Kuffar are proud of their falsehood, and the Muslims are shy of their faith.
— Umar
Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.
— Desiderius Erasmus
The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth.
— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
the constant repetition of falsehood is more convincing than the demonstration of truth.
— Mark Rothko
Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.
— Albert Camus
Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.
— Tryon Edwards
No hoary falsehood shall be a truth to me; no stifling dogma shall encramp my pen!
— Anton Szandor LaVey
Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Modesty, if you consider it, is the most unforgivable sort of falsehood: it's a lie that does damage to no one but yourself.
— Meredith Duran
My holy of holies in the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love and absolute freedom-freedom from force and falsehood.
— Anton Chekhov
I would rather be a devil in alliance with truth, than an angel in alliance with falsehood.
— Ludwig Feuerbach
Heretic ... is a person who seizes upon a truth and pushes it to the point at which it becomes a falsehood.
— T. S. Eliot
It is a true saying that 'one falsehood easily leads to another.'
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
The only thing more frustrating than slanderers is those foolish enough to listen to them.
— Criss Jami
Lies don't make you happy. They just make you lie about being happy.
— Stefan Molyneux
Crime isn't pretty, only fashionably dressed.
— S.W. Frank
I renounce falsehood, whatsoever be the guise it assumes, and I embrace truth, wheresoever I find it.
— Ameen Rihani
