Falsehood Quote by Anthony Hope

“Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it?” quote by Anthony Hope — Download Open image

“Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it?”

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In the deep, unwritten wisdom of life there are many things to be learned that cannot be taught. We never know them by hearing…

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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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Somehow love gives even to a dull man the knowledge of his lover's heart.

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“But if it be never - if I can never hold sweet converse again with her, or look upon her face, or know from her her love; why, then, this side the grave, I will live as becomes the man whom she loves...”

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I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.

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You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd.

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Economy is going without something you do want in case you should, some day, want something you probably won't want.

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“Ah! but a man cannot be held to write down in cold blood the wild and black thoughts that storm his brain when an uncontrolled passion has battered a breach for them. Yet, unless he sets up as a saint, he need not hate himself for them. He is better employed, as it humbly seems to me, in giving thanks…

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“It is my belief that, given the necessary physical likeness, it was far easier to pretend to be king of Ruritania than it would…

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“Yet, unless he sets up as a saint, he need not hate himself for them. He is better employed, as it humbly seems to…

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Unless you are a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.

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falsehood is not more unjustifiable than unsafe.

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A mind conscious of right laughs at the falsehoods of rumour. [Lat., Conscia mens recti famae mendacia risit.]

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“Falsehood of a good man is better than truth of a bad one.”

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So true is it that all transactions of preeminent importance are wrapt in doubt and obscurity; while some hold for certain facts the most…

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Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught in falsehood's school, and the one man that dares to…

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It is a dangerous and fateful presumption, besides the absurd temerity that it implies, to disdain what we do not comprehend. For after you…

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Tangible language, which often tells more falsehoods than truths.

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Whether statistics be an art or a science... or a scientific art, we concern ourselves little. It is the basis of social and political…

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Falsehood, like the dry-rot, flourishes the more in proportion as air and light are excluded.

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People who do not know the Bible well have been gulled into thinking it is a good guide to morality. This mistaken view may have motivated the millionaire Conservative party donors. I have even heard the cynically misanthropic opinion that, without the Bible as a moral compass, people would have no restraint against murder, theft and mayhem. The surest way…

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