"Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you……" — Anthony Hope
"Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it?"
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13 Quotes by Anthony Hope
Anthony Hope has 13 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
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I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.
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Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.
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He is very fond of making things which he does not want, and then giving them to people who have…
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In the deep, unwritten wisdom of life there are many things to be learned that cannot be taught. We never…
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You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd.
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I may not understand, but I am willing to admire.
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Good families are generally worse than any others.
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I have an income nearly sufficient for my wants (no one's income is ever quite sufficient, you know).
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There are moments when I dare not think of it, but there are others when I rise in spirit to…
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For my part, if a man must needs be a knave I would have him a debonair knave... It makes…
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Unless you are a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.
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His foe was folly and his weapon wit.
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More Falsehood Quotes
This quote is filed under Falsehood Quotes,
one of 380 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I don't want to lie. I dislike dishonesty. And I work in Hollywood, a town and a business that relies…
— David Arquette
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The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.
— Abu Bakr
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He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.
— Abu Bakr
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The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound…
— Niels Bohr
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Falsehood is a perennial spring.
— Edmund Burke
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Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.
— Albert Camus
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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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In all general questions which become the subjects of discussion, there are always some truths mixed with falsehoods. I confess,…
— Alexander Hamilton
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