Quotes About Falsehood

Any time I let it, the weight of living creeps in and starts to drag her down. It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored. People talk to her, but it feels like they are outside a house, talking through the walls. There are friends, but they are people to spend time with, not people to share time with. There's a false beast that takes the form of instinct and harps on the pointlessness of everything that happens.

Whiteness is not only false and oppressive, it is nothing but false and oppressive.

False education, false standards, false environment had developed her into a woman who imagined she must feed her body on the milk and honey of indulgence.

Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Honey in the mouth, Dagger in the stomach

One lie will keep out forty truths.

The liar has a bad memory.

El mentiroso tiene mala memoria.

Il dispotismo mite è composto da un intreccio di benevolenza, compiacimento, seduzione, diffusione di notizie false o reticenti, carisma da parte di chi vuole imporlo e sostanziale «passività» dei cittadini.

The psychologist Elizabeth Loftus has shown great courage, in the face of spiteful vested interests, in demonstrating how easy it is for people to concoct memories that are entirely false but which seem, to the victim, every bit as real as true memories.

Most people don't have facades," Natalie said drily. "Oh everyone thinks they do, but when you dig below the facade, there is only more facade.

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

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.

Perfection is deception. An illusion. It's a carefully curated but false narrative. The golden family you think you know from the luxury home down the street—they're not who you believe they are. They have faults, secrets. Sometimes dark and terrible ones.

Perfection is deception. An illusion. It's a carefully curated but false narrative.

Ah. Ah! A man of modesty, either so false that it may be true or so true that it seems entirely false. I can see why Bayard speaks so well of you, sir.

You can fool yourself, you know. You'd think it's impossible, but it turns out it's the easiest thing of all.

I did nothing wrong, I am the one being punished and lied to.

Worst feeling when you know your being lied to.

How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how horrible is it to be a mischievous and malignant hypocrite.

The greater the love, the more false to its object,Not to be born is the best for man;After the kiss comes the impulse to throttle,Break the embraces, dance while you can.

Words have no word for words that are not true.

Why should the faithfullest heart most love The bitter sweetness of false faces?