Quotes about Falsehood
When a man has once forfeited the reputation of his integrity, he is set fast, and nothing will then serve his turn, neither truth nor falsehood.
- John Tillotson
Are they not criminals, books that have wasted our time and sympathy; are they not the most insidious enemies of society, corrupters, defilers, the writers of false books, faked books, books that fill the air with decay and disease?
- Virginia Woolf
Men who are thoroughly false and hollow, seldom try to hide those vices from themselves; and yet in very act of avowing them, they lay claim to the virtues they feign most to despise
- Charles Dickens
Prophecy is the most gratuitous form of error.
- George Eliot
There is no such thing as white lies; a lie is as black as a coalpit, and twice as foul.
- Henry Ward Beecher
The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow.
- Billy Sunday
Dishonor waits on perfidy. A man should blush to think a falsehood; it is the crime of cowards.
- Samuel Johnson
Men forsook God, and made carved images of men. Since therefore an image of man was falsely worshipped as God, God became truly Man, that the falsehood might be done away.
- Cyril of Jerusalem
To preach the Truth to the face of Falsehood!
- Herman Melville
A lie is any communication with intent to deceive.
- Stephen Covey
He who does not hate the false does not love the true; and he to whom it is all the same whether it be God's word or man's, is himself unrenewed at heart.
- Charles Spurgeon
You can put wings on a pig, but that doesn't make it an eagle.
- Bill Clinton