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Quotes About Falsely

Horror is the badge of humanity, worn proudly, self-righteously, and often falsely.
~ Poppy Z. Brite
Pain will force even the truthful to speak falsely
~ Publilius Syrus
TRUTH IS ONE of the very foundations upon which the world stands. As this is so, when you speak falsely it is as if you are nudging at the world's foundation. —RABBI MOSHE CHAIM LUZZATTO (1707–1746)
~ Alan Morinis
I felt like I was definitely seeing something - the falsely gorgeous images of war, painted, almost invariably, in 'Times' combat photos.
~ David Shields
When I was a child, I had an intense fear of going to prison. I wasn't on the run or anything - my crimes were small and they were all against fashion. But I had nightmares about accidentally killing someone, or being falsely accused.
~ Sara Pascoe
O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called.
~ Anonymous
Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.
~ Stephen Jay Gould
Bye-bye, Elan. P.S., Next time you implicate someone falsely, try to pick a pacifist.
~ J.R. Ward
Women see ourselves diminished or softened by the falsely benign accusations of childishness, of non-universality, of changeability, of sensuality.
~ Audre Lorde
Poshlust, Nabokov explains, is not only the obviously trashy but mainly the falsely important, the falsely beautiful, the falsely clever, the falsely attractive.
~ Azar Nafisi
It is my purpose also to give the names and number and times of those who through love of innovation have run into the greatest errors, and, proclaiming themselves discoverers of knowledge falsely so-called [1 Timothy 6:20] have like fierce wolves unmercifully devastated the flock of Christ.
~ Eusebius of Caesarea
Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.
~ Stephen Jay Gould
People think I'm Snow White... the most boring person in the world!
~ Andrea McLean
Historic justice is due to all characters. Who would not vindicate Henry the Eighth or Charles the Second, if found to be falsely traduced? Why then not Richard the Third?
~ Horace Walpole
Bye-bye, Elan. P.S., Next time you implicate someone falsely, try to pick a pacifist.
~ J.R. Ward
The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
They were possessed] of the conviction that optimistic publicity and euphemism had rendered their experience so falsely that it would never be readily communicable... what had happened to them had been systematically sanitized and Norman Rockwellized, not to mention Disneyfied.
~ Charles Whiting
Urich sensed the caution in her, the elusiveness he had falsely spoken of to Raven was now there. There, in her reserved greeting. There, in the avoidance of her eyes to his.
~ Unknown