Quotes About Falsity

Truth is so good a thing that falsehood can not afford to be without it.

FIB, n. A lie that has not cut its teeth.

Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.

The ugly truth was better than the fanciful lie.

There is no truth in him.

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.

Chumps prefer a beautiful lie to an ugly truth.

A half-truth masquerading as the whole truth becomes a complete untruth.

And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in masquerade.

Alla gente tutta quella falsità non fa né caldo né freddo, forse perché l'ininterrotta propaganda commerciale della vita americana le ha instillato soglie eccezionalmente alte di tolleranza per le simulazioni, le gonfiature, le distorsioni, le stronzate e le vere e proprie menzogne, in altre parole per la pubblicità in ogni sua forma.

The truth can not be drowned by any flood of false indictments.

Natürlich ist in diesem Buch alles erstunken und erlogen.

The world is full of liars of different humours.

There are truths on this side of the Pyrénées, which are falsehoods on the other.

Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong.

in the general throng, many a fool receives decorations and titles.

Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented.

Malice often takes the garb of truth.

All that one gains by falsehood is, not to be believed when he speaks the truth.

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

The whole is the false.

Men lie, who lack courage to tell truth--the cowards!

What is not in nature can never be true.

Truth never was indebted to a lie