Quotes About Falsehood

The news of my death is greatly exaggerated.

Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation" yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Quackery gives birth to nothing; gives death to all things.

It was easy to see that it was all crap.

Similarly with regard to truth, won't we say that a soul is maimed if it hates a voluntary falsehood, cannot endure to have one in itself, and is greatly angered when it exists in others, but is nonetheless content to accept an involuntary falsehood, isn't angry when it is caught being ignorant, and bears its lack of learning easily, wallowing in it like a pig?

Arguments, like men, are often pretenders.

Like mythology, Greek philosophy has a tendency to personify ideas. And the Sophist is not merely a teacher of rhetoric for a fee of one or fifty drachmae (Crat.), but an ideal of Plato's in which the falsehood of all mankind is reflected.

Since there has been shown to be false speech and false opinion, there may be imitations of real existences, and out of this condition of the mind an art of deception may arise

A man may smile, and smile, and be a villain

Donald Trump is liar-in-chief.

There are words, looks that can kill, no one notices, everybody is clinging to a facade, a complete distortion.

Every inflection and every gesture a lie, every smile a grimace.

El amor es una palabra bonita que a cambio de una sombra de felicidad te proporciona toda suerte de engaños, falsedades y disgustos.

We walk in circles, so limited by our own anxieties that we can no longer distinguish between true and false, between the gangster's whim and the purest ideal

A lie travels farther than the truth.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.

The more time and devotion one spends in the worship of false gods, the less he is able to spend in that of the True One.

Debunking the Bunk

What about your reputation, then? Are you saying that yours is false, too?" "On the contrary." He looked up and gave her his wicked, charming grin. "I'm every bit the blackhearted rake you've heard that I am. I eat ladies' hearts for supper and spit them out in the morning. More cornbread, my dear?

Lie #2: A "Don't Worry, Be Happy" mindset, promoted by the popular 1988 Grammy Song of the Year of the same name by Bobby McFerrin, will make you happy.

Extremism in defense of liberty is not a vice, but I denounce political extremism, of the left or the right, based on duplicity, falsehood, fear, violence and threats when they endanger liberty.

There is something so mean and unmanly in the arts of dissimulation and falsehood that I am surprised they can be used by anyone in so noble, so generous a passion as virtuous love.

I see no reason for resigning my right to that inventive freedom which others enjoy; and, as I have no truth to put on record, having lived a very humdrum life, I fall back on falsehood--but falsehood of a more consistent variety; for I now make the only true statement you are to expect--that I am a liar.