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Tag Name "Falsehood" (283)

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Falsehoods border on truths.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Falsehood is a critical element in fiction. Part of the thrill of being told a story is the chance of being hoodwinked. . .The telling of lies is a sort of sleight of hand that displays our deepest feelings about life.
John Cheever
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Falsehood is the jockey of misfortune.
Jean Giraudoux
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Falsehood falsehood cures
William Shakespeare
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Falsehood is never in words it is in things.
Italo Calvino
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Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.
George Eliot
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Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.
Daniel Webster
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Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
Tacitus
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Falsehood always endeavors to copy the mien and attitude of truth.
Samuel Johnson
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Falsehoods which we spurn today, were the truths of long ago.
John Greenleaf Whittier
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Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.
Aleister Crowley
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Falsehood is for a season.
Walter Savage Landor
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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.
Hosea Ballou
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Falsehood is a perennial spring.
Edmund Burke
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falsehood is not more unjustifiable than unsafe.
Fanny Burney
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Falsehood always punishes itself.
Frank Auerbach
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Falsehood is difficult to be maintained. When the materials of a building are solid blocks of stone, very rude architecture will suffice but a structure of rotten materials needs the most careful adjustment to make it stand at all.
Richard Whately
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It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.
Margaret Fuller
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not judging truth to be in nature better than falsehood, but setting a value upon both according to interest.
John Dryden
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... truth ... carries authority with it while falsehood and lies skulk under a load of words, without having the power of persuasion the more they attempt to show themselves, the more they are entangled.
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
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A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
John F. Kennedy
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A mortgaged home, an empty stomach and a ragged back know no party. We will live to write the epitaphs of the old parties: Died of general debility, old age, and chronic falsehoods.
Mary Elizabeth Lease
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I am sure, zeal or love for truth can never permit falsehood to be used in the defense of it.
John Locke
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men, And falsehood, while I lived, was far from mine.
Matthew Arnold
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