Falsehood Quotes
All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.
Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self-praise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of others.
Man can certainly keep on lying... but he cannot make truth falsehood. He can certainly rebel... but he can accomplish nothing which abolishes the choice of God.
For politicians truth and falsehood are unimportant. So I never could become a politician - not even a church politician.
Fire destroys falsehood, that is sophistry, and restores truth, driving out darkness.
The only thing more frustrating than slanderers is those foolish enough to listen to them.
Falsehood is never better than truth, theft better than honesty, treachery better than loyalty, cowardice better than courage.
Like the juggler, deceiving by his tricks, one is deluded by egotism, falsehood and illusion.
There is often seen this anomaly in women, especially in those of childish natures,--that they possess at once great promptness and unskilfulness in falsehood.
Reason forbade me many things which, Instinctively, my nature was attracted to; And a perpetual loss I feel if, knowing, I believe a falsehood or deny the truth.
. . . is to attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing Darkness. It cannot be.
In the long run, the most unpleasant truth is a safer companion than a pleasant falsehood.
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. An evil soul producing holy witness Is like a villain with a smiling cheek, A goodly apple rotten at the heart. O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!
I will not avoid doing what I think is right, though it should draw on me the whole artillery that falsehood and malice can invent, or the credulity a deluded population can swallow.
Nay, if there be any mistakes in the Bible, there may as well be a thousand. If there be one falsehood in that book, it did not come from the God of truth
I never encourage deceit, and falsehood, especially if you have got a bad memory, is the worst enemy a fellow can have. The fact is truth is your truest friend, no matter what the circumstances are.
It is a general rule that when the grain of truth cannot be found, men will swallow great helpings of falsehood.
My holy of holies is the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love, and absolute freedom--freedom from violence and falsehood, no matter how the last two manifest themselves.
But he that sows lies in the end shall not lack of a harvest, and soon he may rest from toil indeed, while others reap and sow in his stead.
A lie should be trampled on and extinguished wherever found. I am for fumigating the atmosphere when I suspect that falsehood, like pestilence, breathes around me.
No hoary falsehood shall be a truth to me; no stifling dogma shall encramp my pen!
If the Lord counts the natural beauty of the body inferior to that of the soul, what thinks He of spurious beauty, rejecting utterly as He does all falsehood?
... the besetting danger is not so much of embracing falsehood for truth, as of mistaking a part of the truth for the whole.
Time's glory is to command contending kings, To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light.
A man of faith will remain steadfast to truth even though the whole world might appear to be enveloped in falsehood.
Do not talk about the soul, heaven, or God. Talking about something that is not yet a reality for you amounts to falsehood.
That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood.
Like crying wolf, if you keep looking for sympathy as a justification for your actions, you will someday be left standing alone when you really need help.
Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse.
I stand for truth. Truth will never ally itself with falsehood. Even if all the world should be against me, Truth must prevail in the end.
Public support in the U.S. for the war against Iraq was founded on a multitiered edifice of falsehood and deceit, coordinated by the U.S. government and faithfully amplified by the corporate media.
