False Quotes

1931 quotes by 1308 authors

It's a very American trait, this wanting people to think well of us. It's a young want, and I am ashamed of it in myself.… — Madeleine L'Engle
Only Thee That I want thee, only thee---let my heart repeat without end. All desires that distract me, day and night, are false and empty… — Rabindranath Tagore
We're just fragile machines programmed with a false sense of our own importance. And every now and then the universe sends a reminder that we… — Neil Strauss
You," he said, "are a terribly real thing in a terribly false world, and that, I believe, is why you are in so much pain. — Emilie Autumn
As soon seek roses in December, ice in June, Hope constancy in wind, or corn in chaff Believe a woman or an epitaph Or any… — Lord Byron
She loved Bram in a clear-eyed way sheâ€™d never loved her ex-husband, no rose-colored glasses or mindless giddiness, no Cinderella fantasies or false certainty that… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips
If there is some corner of the world which has remained peaceful, but with a peace based on injustices the peace of a swamp with… — HÃ©lder CÃ¢mara
A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines. — Benjamin Franklin
It amazes me how easy it is for things to change, how easy it is to start off down the same road you always take… — Lauren Oliver
I was not a hypocrite, with one real face and several false ones. I had several faces because I was young and didn't know who… — Milan Kundera
Few people ask from books what books can give us. Most commonly we come to books with blurred and divided minds, asking of fiction that… — Virginia Woolf
...I is another. If the brass wakes the trumpet, itâ€™s not its fault. Thatâ€™s obvious to me: I witness the unfolding of my own thought:… — Arthur Rimbaud
She mediated, by turns, on broken promises and broken arches, phaetons and false hangings, Tilneys and trap-doors. — Jane Austen
I was the shadow of the waxwing slain By the false azure in the windowpane; I was the smudge of ashen fluff -and I Lived… — Vladimir Nabokov
What Rizzoli thought, staring at her own image, was that she hated Elizabeth Hurley for giving women false hope. The brutal truth was, there are… — Tess Gerritsen
False hopes are more dangerous than fears. — J.R.R. Tolkien
True and false fears let us refrain, Let us love nobly, and live, and add again Years and years unto years, till we attain To… — John Donne
That is the saddest part when you lose someone you love - that person keeps changing. And later you wonder, Is this the same person… — Amy Tan
I don't know how you perceive my mission as a writer, but for me it is not a responsibility to reaffirm your concretized myths and… — Harlan Ellison
But they need to worry and betray time with urgencies false and otherwise, purely anxious and whiny, their souls really won't be at peace unless… — Jack Kerouac

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