False Quotes

1931 quotes by 1326 authors

The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false, that it lessens. — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
Do not let your "eye" be drawn by the false "beacon lamps" -of wealth, or position, or fame, or possessions. Be vigilant over your will… — John of the Cross
Seventeen years after the Cold War, how can it be in the Unites States' national security interest for the President of Russia to have only… — Sam Nunn
The world exists, not for what it means but for what it is. The purpose of mushrooms is to be mushrooms, wine is in order… — Robert Farrar Capon
He who would distinguish the true from the false must have an adequate idea of what is true and false. — Baruch Spinoza
If you play men, in a way it's easier. You can have a voicebox, you can have false hair, mustaches, wigs, you can have all… — Janet McTeer
The problem is, is the White House and this administration have created a war against police officers in this country, with their allegations and false… — Kimberly Guilfoyle
Too great refinement is false delicacy, and true delicacy is solid refinement. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The hardest part of gaining any new idea is sweeping out the false idea occupying that niche. — Robert A. Heinlein
Commemoration of Gilbert of Sempringham, Founder of the Gilbertine Order, 1189 Some there are who presume so far on their wits that they think themselves… — Thomas Aquinas
In love, everything is true, everything is false; it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity. — Nicolas Chamfort
Since the time of the cavemen, man has glorified himself, has made himself divine, and his monstrous vanity has caused human catastrophe. Art has collaborated… — Hans Arp
High finance isn't burglary or obtaining money by false pretenses, but rather a judicious selection from the best features of those fine arts. — Finley Peter Dunne
The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accursed; Man is more than Constitutions; better rot beneath the sod, Than be true to Church and… — James Russell Lowell
Tis gold Which buys admittance--oft it doth--yea, and makes Diana's rangers false themselves, yield up This deer to th' stand o' th' stealer: and 'tis… — William Shakespeare
How many cowards whose hearts are all as false As stairs of sand, wear yet upon their chins The beards of Hercules and frowning Mars,… — William Shakespeare
True glory strikes root, and even extends itself; all false pretensions fall as do flowers, nor can any feigned thing be lasting. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The mind conscious of innocence despises false reports: but we are a set always ready to believe a scandal. — Ovid
Whenever a great painter... does a work which appears to be false and lying, that falsity is very true. — Michelangelo
Search then the ruling passion; there alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known; The fool consistent, and the false sincere; Priests, princes, women,… — Alexander Pope

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