Quotes About Falsehood

Falsehood flies," observed Jonathan Swift, "and the truth comes limping after it." McCarthy's

When the deranged rooster crowed a third time, his crowing was cut off mid-squawk. "There, that does it," Miriam said. "No more heralding of a false dawn, no more untruthful messengers.

Vranyo is Russian for lying even when everyone knows that's what you're doing.

Truth and falsehood are arbitrary terms. . . . There is nothing in experience to tell us that one is always preferable to the other. . . . There are lifeless truths and vital lies. . . . The force of an idea lies in its inspirational value. It matters very little if it is true or false.

No falsehood is so fatal as that which is made an article of faith.

you can never really get rid of a lie you've convinced yourself is true.

Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?

Let her [Truth] and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter? Her confuting is the best and surest suppressing.

Though all winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and falsehood grapple, who ever knew truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter.

So spake Israel's true king, and to the Fiend Made answer meet, that made void all his wiles. So fares it, when with truth falsehood contends.

All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things.

I fear the day when the Kuffar are proud of their falsehood, and the Muslims are shy of their faith.

As fear is a close companion to falsehood, so truth follows fearlessness.

What is true never fears investigation; what is false... fears everything.

Life is full of fake people.

Really, it is unheard of, this spontaneous generation of falsehood. I do not ask who it was that told you, but it would be really interesting, in a field as limited as this, to work back from one person to another and find out how the story arose

It is the act of a bad man to deceive by falsehood.

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

Besides, we shall want employments for our senses, and subjects for arguments; for were there nothing but truth, and no falsehood, there would be no occasion for to dispute, and by this means we should want the aim and pleasure of our endeavours in confuting and contradicting each other; neither would one man be thought wiser than another, but all would either be alike knowing and wise, or all would be fools...

If I said I was madly in love with you you'd know I was lying.

I loved something I made up, something that's just as dead as Melly is. I made a pretty suit of clothes and fell in love with it. And when Ashley came riding along, so handsome, so different, I put that suit on him and made him wear it whether it fitted him or not. And I wouldn't see what he really was. I kept on loving the pretty clothes—and not him at all.

You're baloney without the mayo.

Our faith doesn't magically make our assumptions about Jesus and the Bible true. Faith can't turn a falsehood into truth. Rightly understood, it's not a blind belief in the unbelievable; it's a rational belief based on a preponderance of evidence.

the constant repetition of falsehood is more convincing than the demonstration of truth.