Quotes About Falsehood

In thy foul throat thou liest.

Done to death by slanderous tongue

she did lie In her pavillion--cloth-of-gold of tissue-- O'er-picturing that Venus where we see The fancy out-work nature

Lies, are truths with no scrutiny

America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.

But they are quite often ignoring the truth while they say so.

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

Only falsehood wins renown, not understanding!

That is the taste of a liar!

I don't lie," I lied.

Lying is so easy here. I can do it all day long and never be caught.

I never encourage deceit, and falsehood, especially if you have got a bad memory, is the worst enemy a fellow can have. The fact is truth is your truest friend, no matter what the circumstances are.

He who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false, is guilty of falsehood; and the accidental truth of the assertion, does not justify or excuse him.

The vast bulk of Murdoch's news output, including the huge majority of any falsehood and distortion, is simply the spontaneous product of his highly commercialised newsrooms. It sells.

I cannot adequately express the horror I feel for a man who can be so base as to veil his hypocrisy under the cloak of religion, and state the base falsehood he has done.

I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version.

Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the insidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood.

My whole testimony was a lie.

If the Lord counts the natural beauty of the body inferior to that of the soul, what thinks He of spurious beauty, rejecting utterly as He does all falsehood?

O brave poets, keep back nothing; Nor mix falsehood with the whole! Look up Godward! speak the truth in Worthy song from earnest soul! Hold, in high poetic duty, Truest Truth the fairest Beauty.

This car was a very pretty lie.

Sex makes a man dishonest with himself, as is well known. I feared the slippery ambiguity of false feeling, of expediency, of things not being exactly true.

Pure truth is possible, but pure falsehood is not.

Art, like theology, a packaged fraud.