Falsehood quotes
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There is often seen this anomaly in women, especially in those of childish natures,--that they possess at once great promptness and unskilfulness in falsehood.
-- Alphonse Daudet -
Truth is so good a thing that falsehood can not afford to be without it.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Foolhardy to put your trust where it is easy to create falsehood.
-- Anne Mallory -
Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it?
-- Anthony Hope -
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The ultimate truth is penultimately a falsehood.
-- Arthur Koestler -
It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself.
-- Berthold Auerbach -
falsehood is not more unjustifiable than unsafe.
-- Fanny Burney -
There has never been nationhood without falsehood.
-- Felipe Fernandez-Armesto -
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Falsehood always punishes itself.
-- Frank Auerbach -
Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented.
-- Georges Braque -
It's a falsehood to state that francophone communities are thriving.
-- Gilles Duceppe -
The priest is the personification of falsehood.
-- Giuseppe Garibaldi -
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Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
-- Herodotus -
Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage....
-- Hosea Ballou -
Not the least misfortune in a prominent falsehood is the fact that tradition is apt to repeat it for truth.
-- Hosea Ballou -
Falsehood is the jockey of misfortune.
-- Jean Giraudoux -
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Is there some truth out there? Yes. Is there a lot of falsehood out there? Absolutely.
-- Jeff Gannon -
Who begins with severity, in judging of another, ends commonly with falsehood.
-- Johann Kaspar Lavater -
not judging truth to be in nature better than falsehood, but setting a value upon both according to interest.
-- John Dryden -
Let her (Truth) and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?
-- John Milton -
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The truth cannot be asserted without denouncing the falsehood.
-- Leslie Stephen -
It is a true saying that 'one falsehood easily leads to another.'
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero -
Would that I could discover truth as easily as I can uncover falsehood.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero -
Falsehoods border on truths.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero -
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Better is the wrong with sincerity, rather than the right with falsehood.
-- Martin Farquhar Tupper -
For politicians truth and falsehood are unimportant. So I never could become a politician not even a church politician.
-- Martin Niemoller -
He who has no confidence utters falsehoods, and he who utters falsehoods has no confidence.
-- Nachman of Breslov -
You can recognize a small truth because its opposite is a falsehood. The opposite of a great truth is another truth.
-- Niels Bohr -
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There is only one thing infamous in love, and that is a falsehood.
-- Paul Bourget -
There are questions so indiscreet, that they deserve neither truth nor falsehood in reply.
-- Sophie Swetchine -
The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood.
-- Thomas Jefferson -
False as the fowler's artful snare.
-- Tobias Smollett -
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I fear the day when the Kuffar are proud of their falsehood, and the Muslims are shy of their faith.
-- Umar -
In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
-- Walter Savage Landor -
Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation
-- Willard Van Orman Quine -
A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.
-- William Shenstone -
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Truth can be attested by the supernatural, but so can falsehood.
-- Max Anders
