False Quotes

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False praise is worse than no praise. — Felix Dennis
When people rely on surface appearances and false racial stereotypes, rather than in-depth knowledge of others at the level of the heart, mind and spirit,… — James A. Forbes
She should have done science, not spent all her time with her head in novels. Novels gave you a completely false idea about life, they… — Kate Atkinson
It is a wise thing to be polite; consequently, it is a stupid thing to be rude. To make enemies by unnecessary and willful incivility,… — Arthur Schopenhauer
It is always the false that makes you suffer, the false desires and fears, the false values and ideas, the false relationships between people. Abandon… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Once in an age God sends to some of us a friend who loves in us, not a false-imagining, an unreal character, but looking through… — Harriet Beecher Stowe
But, indeed, words are very rascals, since bonds [vows] disgraced them." Viola: "Thy reason, man?" Feste: "Troth [Truthfully], sir, I can yield you none without… — William Shakespeare
The policy of the emperors and the senate, as far as it concerned religion, was happily seconded by the reflections of the enlightened, and by… — Edward Gibbon
An economic system which can only expand or expire must be false to all that is human. — Edward Abbey
Success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblances to merit.... They confound the brilliance of the firmament with the star-shaped footprints… — Victor Hugo
Sometimes I lie awake at night and I ask, "Is life a multiple choice test or is it a true or false test?" ...Then a… — Charles M. Schulz
I held her wrists and then I got it through the eyes: hatred, centuries deep and true. I was wrong and graceless and sick. all… — Charles Bukowski
Many words have been granted me, and some are wise, and some are false, but only three are holy: "I will it! — Ayn Rand
In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope. — Barack Obama
Why couldn't the merciful God turn down the sunlight so it wasn't blasting like a red furnace against his aching eyes? Because he'd worshipped the… — Nora Roberts
If scientific analysis were conclusively to demonstrate certain claims in Buddhism to be false, then we must accept the findings of science and abandon those… — Dalai Lama
True or false, that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as… — Victor Hugo
There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the… — Oscar Wilde
Peace will come With tranquility and splendor on the wheels of fire But will bring us no reward when her false idols fall.. — Bob Dylan
There's always a moment when you start to fall out of love, whether it's with a person or an idea or a cause, even if… — Douglas Adams

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