Quotes About Falsehood

As soon seek roses in December, ice in June, Hope constancy in wind, or corn in chaff Believe a woman or an epitaph Or any other thing that's false Before you trust in critics.

No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof. What everybody echoes or in silence passes by as true to-day may turn out to be falsehood to-morrow.

There is no truth in him.

It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error. It is better to speak the truth that hurts and then heals, than falsehood that comforts and then kills.

The false can never grow into truth by growing in power.

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.

Lies are the greatest murder. They kill the Truth.

Come! let us take a moment's shelter under some roof Look! there - before you, a little way off There is an empty space Between truth and falsehood.

Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth.

My friend, the truth is always implausible, did you know that? To make the truth more plausible, it's absolutely necessary to mix a bit of falsehood with it. People have always done so.

In order to understand the interrelation of truth and falsehood in life, a man must understand falsehood in himself, the constant incessant lies he tells himself.

Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect.

One lie has the power to tarnish a thousand truths.

There could be no justice, unless there were also injustice; no courage, unless there were cowardice; no truth, unless there were falsehood.

A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.

It is hard to tell which is worse; the wide diffusion of things that are not true, or the suppression of things that are true.

Lies circle the earth while Truth is still trying to put on its shoes.

There are people so addicted to exaggeration that they actually can't tell the truth without lying.

I can't stand looking at those nasty, smiling, yes-men. They'll say yes to an August snowstorm and agree to fish growing on a cherry tree. If I run into someone like that, I just want to smear honey all over him and let the bees have a picnic.

Love is blind and little did I know, you were just another dead end road. Paved with pretty lies and broken dreams.

No human being can control love, and no one is to blame either for feeling it or for losing it. What alone degrades a woman is falsehood.

True and false fears let us refrain, Let us love nobly, and live, and add again Years and years unto years, till we attain To write threescore ; this is the second of our reign.

Through True Love, she merges with Him. She who does not know her Husband Lord, the Architect of karma, is deluded by falsehood she herself is false.