Quotes About Falsehood

The most mischievous liars are those who keep sliding on the verge of truth.

not judging truth to be in nature better than falsehood, but setting a value upon both according to interest.

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.

True and False are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither Truth nor Falsehood.

I am sure, zeal or love for truth can never permit falsehood to be used in the defense of it.

Truth can be sifted out from falsehood only if the government is vigorously and consistently cross-examined, so that the fundamental issues of the struggle may be clearly defined

It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more completely deprive the nation of its benefits than is done by its abandoned prostitution to falsehood.

A big lie is more plausible than truth.

It is the surest proof of man's natural enmity against God that he dares to impute falsehood to one who is truth itself.

Truth does not do as much good in the world as its imitations do harm.

Truth is so good a thing that falsehood can not afford to be without it.

LIAR, n. One who tells an unpleasant truth.

FIB, n. A lie that has not cut its teeth. An habitual liar's nearest approach to truth: the perigee of his eccentric orbit.

It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself.

Imagination is the deceptive part in man, the mistress of error and falsehood.

All err the more dangerously because each follows a truth. Their mistake lies not in following a falsehood but in not following another truth.

Truth is brighter than Light Falsehood darker than night Revenge is keener than Axe and Love is softer than melting wax

Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult. Even with no motive to be false, it is very hard to say the exact truth.

If we dealt only with the false and dishonest, we should at last forget how to speak truth.

Truth never turns to rebuke falsehood; her own straightforwardness is the severest correction.

A man avails himself of the truth so long as it is serviceable; but he seizes on what is false with a passionate eloquence as soon as he can make a momentary use of it.

Christ taught us truth; the Devil teaches us falsehood, and strives in every way to contradict every truth; devising various calumnies against it.

I hate the truth so much that i'd rather have a giant dose of bulls**t anyday

It is a true saying that 'one falsehood easily leads to another.'