Quotes About Falsehood

but we people of fashion know better things. We know self-love and insincerity to be useful and important qualities, the grand cement which binds our intercourse with each other. Born a superior race, we can bid truth and plain honesty depart; and, having dressed falsehood and guile in all the fascination of the senses, can bow down before the idol of our own creation.

Pure white light enfold him and he smiled at the lie.

en un mundo venal, hecho de hipocresía y falsas maneras, los poderosos, los buitres carroñeros, los envidiosos, los cobardes y los canallas suelen encubrirse unos a otros. Dios nuestro señor los crió a todos, y éstos vinieron juntándose desde siempre, y bien a su gusto, en nuestra infeliz España.

A fellow who says he has never told a lie has just told one.

Humbug!...Humbug!...Humbug!...

Every kind of falsehood and truth is present in public opinion, but it is the prerogative of the great man to discover the truth within it. He who expresses the will of his age, tells it what its will is, and accomplishes this will, is the great man of the age.

Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult....Examine your words well, and you will find that even when you have no motive to be false, it is a very hard thing to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings -- much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth.

It is so with emotional natures whose thoughts are no more than the fleeting shadows cast by feeling: to them words are facts, and even when known to be false, have a mastery over their smiles and tears.

The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.

It's a falsehood to state that francophone communities are thriving.

He pursued false shadows and had nothing to show for it but exhaustion.

all these calculations yes explanations yes the whole story from beginning to end yes completely false yes

I don't mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.

Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy.

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

To describe America as a "nation of immigrants" is to stretch a partial truth into a misleading falsehood, and to ignore the central fact of America's beginning as a society of settlers.

Psalm 52:3: "You love evil rather than good, and falsehood rather than truth.

The lie that started it all.

One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.

I can assure you that those villains will recognize, will discover in appropriate time in the future how stupid they are and how they are pretending things which have never taken place

A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.

A liar has many points to his favour,—but he has this against him, that unless he devote more time to the management of his lies than life will generally allow, he cannot make them tally.

I have no cause for anger. How can I make my plaint, who injured him I most was bound to serve, whom most I loved? Who has been falser to me and I not falser? Whose treachery so black that mine's not blacker Whose gross injustice will not show but small, when mine is shown beside it?

I am a liar!