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Falsehood and fraud shoot up in every soil The product of all climes. - Joseph Addison Money and man a mutual falsehood show, Men make false money, money makes men so. - Aleyn All that one gains by falsehood is, not to be believed when he speaks the truth. - Aristotle Round dealing is the honor of man's nature; and a mixture of falsehood is like alloy in gold and silver, which may make the metal work the better, but it embaseth it. - Francis Bacon Falsehood is cowardice. - Hosea Ballou Not the least misfortune in a prominent falsehood is the fact that tradition is apt to repeat it for truth. - Hosea Ballou All genuinely noble women prefer truth to falsehood. As the Russians with their Czar, they are unwilling to see their idol degraded; they want to be proud of the domination they accept. - Honore de Balzac Falsehood and death are synonymous. - George Bancroft 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. - Thomas Carlyle False modesty is the most decent of all falsehoods. - Sebastien-Roch-Nicolas de Chamfort Cottages have them (falsehood and dissimulation) as well as courts, only with worse manners. - 4th Earl of Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another. - Aleister Crowley 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. - Alphonse Daudet Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult. - George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross) Woe to falsehood! it affords no relief to the breast, like truth; it gives us no comfort, pains him who forges it, and like an arrow directed by a god flies back and wounds the archer. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Wisdom and truth, the offspring of the sky, are immortal; while cunning and deception, the meteors of the earth, after glittering for a moment, must pass away. - Robert Hall Let falsehood be a stranger to thy lips; Shame on the policy that first began To tamper with the heart to hide its thoughts! And doubly shame on that inglorious tongue, That sold its honesty and told a lie. - William Havard Habitual liars invent falsehoods not to gain any end or even to deceive their hearers, but to amuse themselves. It is partly practice and partly habit. It requires an effort in them to speak truth. - William Hazlitt (1) Nothing gives such a blow to friendship as the detecting another in an untruth. It strikes at the root of our confidence ever after. - William Hazlitt (1) There is a set of harmless liars, frequently to be met with in company, who deal much in the marvellous. Their usual intention is to please and entertain; but as men are most delighted with what they conceive to be the truth, these people mistake the means of pleasing, and incur universal blame. - David Hume A few men are sufficient to broach falsehoods, which are afterwards innocently diffused by successive relaters. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature") Falsehood always endeavors to copy the mien and attitude of truth. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature") It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentional lying that there is so much falsehood in the world. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature") Large offers and sturdy rejections are among the most common topics of falsehood. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature") Displaying page 1 of 3 for this topic: Next >> [1] 2 3
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