Quotes About Falsehood

All generalizations are false, including this one.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

I compare it with a lie, which like to a snowball, the longer it is rolled the greater it becomes.

In love, everything is true, everything is false; it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity

Whole new level of bullshit, more like," CeeJay said. "What a waste of a penis that guy is.

Every word she [Lillian Hellman] writes is a lie, including "and" and "the."

When falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness?

Politeness is one half good nature and the other half good lying.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men, And falsehood, while I lived, was far from mine.

On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.

Like a garbage truck, we need a 'lie-truck' which will collect lies from everyone's houses every morning, even every hour!

We know that the world is not resting on the horn of a bull; we also know that it rests on the horn of lies!

A divine falsehood is more powerful than any human truth.

liar needs a good memory.

He grieved for the loss of his friend, and he grieved over the follies of mankind, the repeated choice for falsehood, generation after generation, as men preferred darkness to light, the mystery of iniquity to the long, hard labors of love.

But secrets never, ever disappear, even after they are revealed. And that's the real secret right there. The empty space that never gets filled. The entropy of falsehood. The real secret is the secret itself.

If falsehood, like truth, had but one face, we would be more on equal terms. For we would consider the contrary of what the liar said to be certain. But the opposite of truth has a hundred thousand faces and an infinite field.

Their [the Skeptics'] way of speaking is: "I settle nothing…. I do not understand it…. Nothing seems true that may not seem false." Their sacramental word is E?___, which is to say, I suspend my judgment.

Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Telling lies is their herbage.

When the secret of truth is found, falsehood is thrown on its back on the ground.

Now this peasant came to petition him a ninth time; he said: "O high steward, my lord! The tongue is men's stand-balance. It is the balance that detects deficiency. Punish him who should be punished, and none shall equal your rectitude. When falsehood walks it goes astray.

Liars are always most disposed to swear.