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Tag Name "Falsehood" (283)

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Falsehoods which we spurn today, were the truths of long ago.
John Greenleaf Whittier
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Falsehood falsehood cures
William Shakespeare
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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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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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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 is for a season.
Walter Savage Landor
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Falsehood always endeavors to copy the mien and attitude of truth.
Samuel Johnson
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Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
Tacitus
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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 cowardice, the truth courage.
Hosea Ballou
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Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.
Aleister Crowley
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Falsehood is a perennial spring.
Edmund Burke
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If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence.
Louis D. Brandeis
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None are so hopelessly enslaved, as those who falsely believe they are free. The truth has been kept from the depth of their minds by masters who rule them with lies. They feed them on falsehoods till wrong looks like right in their eyes.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
Marcel Proust
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The human heart has so many crannies where vanity hides, so many holes where falsehood works, is so decked out with deceiving hypocrisy, that it often dupes itself.
John Calvin
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gossip, after it reaches a certain point of insult and falsehood, becomes a source of amusement to its victims.
Margaret Deland
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We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth it is their common method to take on trust what they help distribute to the public by which means a falsehood once received from a famed writer becomes traditional to posterity.
John Dryden
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Politeness only teaches us to save others from unnecessary pain.... You are not bound by politeness to tell any falsehoods.
Maria Edgeworth
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