False Quotes · Page 7

Find the trend whose premise is false, and bet against it.

— George Soros

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

— Thornton Wilder

Approval of what is approved of Is as false as a well-kept vow.

— John Betjeman

“NEVER TRUST a blanket statement. They're all false.”

— Peter Wisan

[Read] anything but history,.. for history must be false.

— Robert Walpole

Believe that story false that ought not to be true.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

The more false we destroy, the more room there will be for the true.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

To conquer a nation, first disarm its citizens.

— Adolf Hitler

“Don't pretend to be what you're not, instead, pretend to what you want to be, it is not pretence, it is a…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

The writing that I have found to be most false is the writing that doesn't offer hope.

— Jacqueline Woodson

A true and worthy ideal frees and uplifts a people; a false ideal imprisons and lowers.

— W. E. B. Du Bois

I have never intentionally provided false and misleading information to the NCAA.

— Kelvin Sampson

There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.

— Barton Gellman

How many times has the end of the world been predicted? The same number of times the prediction has proved false.

— Hugh Downs

That preconceived notion of me being inaccurate is completely false, and I look forward to changing that over time.

— Josh Allen

At my advanced age, I know I am not an anti-Semite, not even vaguely or remotely, but others would seem to know…

— Michael Leunig

“Telling the truth to yourself is Integrity; Telling the truth to others is Honesty; Telling the truth with no fear or intimidation…

— Israelmore Ayivor

This idea that a book can either be about character and feeling, or about politics and idea, is just a false binary.…

— Richard Powers

My dad had always been a big decaf coffee drinker. But my mom had always been more of a tea drinker. So…

— Chelsea Clinton

The thing I hate most is false modesty. The artists who are, like, 'Oh, you know, I'm really not that good. Oh,…

— Rufus Wainwright

The case for Brexit was made on rhetorical flourishes and promises and bluster. A lot of promises on which people voted have…

— Jo Johnson

It's not okay to just make up false things about someone, especially in their personal life. Professionally, fine! Scrutinize me all you…

— Keri Hilson

It is good that these terrorists are now facing justice, but in the reporting of the case, it would be helpful if…

— Jose A. Rodriguez, Jr

“There is a 100% assurance that what your friend’s enemy tells you about your friend is false. What your failure tells you…

— Israelmore Ayivor

Oh, do not read history, for that I know must be false.

— Robert Walpole

“they won't be false and they won't be true, but hey'll be real.”

— Mary Oliver

TV has created a kind of false collectivity.

— Adrienne Rich

Sentimentality is intolerable because it is false feeling.

— Doris Lessing

“Fake or false beliefs abound, supported by many.”

— Steven Redhead

What is true is true, and what is false is false...

— Emanuel Swedenborg

There is no true life within a false life.

— Anonymous

Duration is not a test of true or false.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“Young writers get false ideas from indiscreet praise.”

— Uncle Haskell

The false can never grow into truth by growing in power.

— Rabindranath Tagore

Gloriously false, a maid famous for all time.

— Horace

Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.

— Guy de Maupassant

“My bullshit metre is reading that as false'.”

— Charlaine Harris

“the grandeur false if you were not grand yourself.”

— Tracy Chevalier

False perceptions are being created about me without an iota of proof.

— Sharad Pawar

“Listen! The court jester's cap and bells. The King is coming!”

— Ljupka Cvetanova