False Quotes

1931 quotes by 1326 authors

There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do… — Charles Kingsley
It's not mere extremism that makes folks at the fringes so troubling; it's extremism wedded to false beliefs. Humans have long been dupes, easily gulled… — Jeffrey Kluger
True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people… — R. D. Laing
California is a queer place in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific. It is absolutely… — D. H. Lawrence
I'm not a film star, I am an actress. Being a film star is such a false life, lived for fake values and for publicity. — Vivien Leigh
Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important. — C.S. Lewis
But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false? — H P Lovecraft
The eyebrow pencil and false eyelashes were essential; my mother didn't feel dressed without them. — Lorna Luft
False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing… — Joseph de Maistre
If nothing else in life, I want to be true to the things I believe in, and quite simply, to what I'm all about. I… — Peyton Manning
In journalism just one fact that is false prejudices the entire work. In contrast, in fiction one single fact that is true gives legitimacy to… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The distinction between literary and genre fiction is stupid and pernicious. It dates back to a feud between Robert Louis Stevenson and Henry James. James… — George R. R. Martin
A biblical false prophet was a servant of the devil attempting to lead people away from the truth. — Walter Martin
Malice scorned, puts out itself; but argued, give a kind of credit to a false accusation. — Philip Massinger
Of all my false identities, the strategies in my campaign to be accepted, being a sworn Republican is the hardest to explain. In my later… — James McGreevey
It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the… — Margaret Mead
The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule. — H. L. Mencken
I once made the mistake of going for a whole row of false eyelashes, which was just wrong as it gave me a sad, puppy-eyed… — Sienna Miller
What is not in the open street is false, derived, that is to say, literature. — Henry Miller
I could get into bed with James Bond, then take my false leg off and it would really be a gun. — Heather Mills

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