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Falsehood Quotes - Page 2

Is there some truth out there? Yes. Is there a lot of falsehood out there? Absolutely.

"Countdown with Keith Olbermann", www.nbcnews.com. February 24, 2005.

History is nothing more than the belief in the senses, the belief in falsehood.

Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “The Essential Nietzsche”, p.44, Courier Corporation

A convention is an agreed-upon falsehood, a permitted lie.

Thornton Wilder (2014). “The Collected Short Plays of Thornton Wilder, Volume T”, p.269, Theatre Communications Group

Affectation is the product of falsehood.

Thomas Carlyle (1864). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays ...”, p.213

When falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness?

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1823). “Frankenstein: ; Or, The Modern Prometheus”, p.190, DOSER Reads

All idealism is falsehood in the face of necessity.

Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “The Essential Nietzsche”, p.167, Courier Corporation

Falsehood falsehood cures

William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.1169, Oxford University Press

False as the fowler's artful snare.

Samuel Johnson, Thomas Parnell, Thomas Gray, Tobias Smollett, George Gilfillan (1855). “The Poetical Works of Johnson: Parnell, Gray, and Smollett, with Memoirs, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes”, p.251

Had I a heart for falsehood framed, I ne'er could injure you.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Thomas Moore (1833). “The works: With a biographical sketch”, p.65

Though truth and falsehood be Near twins, yet truth a little elder is.

John Donne, Izaak Walton (1855). “The Poetical Works of Dr. John Donne: With a Memoir”, p.411

falsehood is not more unjustifiable than unsafe.

Frances Burney, Fanny Burney (2015). “Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)”, p.61, Delphi Classics

Truth and falsehood are opposed; but truth is the norm not of truth only but of falsehood also.

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.33, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt