Falsehood Quotes
"The Ways of Paradox and other Essays (The Ways of Paradox)". Book by Willard Van Orman Quine, 1966.
Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works”, p.307, Cosimo, Inc.
"Martin Niemöller, 1892-1984" by James Bentley, (p. 223), 1984.
"Wisdom and Destiny". Book by Maurice Maeterlinck, 1898.
Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The Works of Walter Savage Landor”, p.556
Tom Stoppard (2013). “The Invention of Love”, p.35, Faber & Faber
The truth cannot be asserted without denouncing the falsehood.
Sir Leslie Stephen (1873). “Essays on Freethinking and Plainspeaking”, p.361
Jean Giraudoux (1964). “Three plays”
Italo Calvino (2013). “Invisible Cities”, p.70, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Walter Savage Landor (1829). “Barrow and Newton. Peleus and Thetis. The King of Ava and Rao-Gong-Fao. Photo Zavellas and his sister Kaido. Epicurus, Leontion, and Ternissa. The Empress Catharine and Princess Dashkoff. William Penn and Lord Peterborough. Miguel and mother. Metellus and Marius. Nicolas and Michel. Leofric and Godiva. Izaac Walton, Cotton, and William Oldways”, p.428
James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Edmond Malone (1824). “The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished”, p.222
None can be pleased without praise, and few can be praised without falsehood.
Samuel Johnson (1820). “The Rambler”, p.26
Better is the wrong with sincerity, rather than the right with falsehood.
Martin Farquhar Tupper (1846). “Proverbial Philosophy: A Book of Thoughts and Arguments, Originally Treated”, p.147
Areopagitica (1644) See OliverWendell Holmes, Jr. 28
