False Quotes

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It's a saying they have, that a man has a false heart in his mouth for the world to see, another in his breast to… — James Clavell
How vulgar, this hankering after immortality, how vain, how false. Composers are merely scribblers of cave paintings. One writes music because winter is eternal and… — David Mitchell
All of it seems like noise and false light, and all I want for tonight is quiet, the black and gray of a summer night,… — Brad Barkley
DON PEDRO Come, lady, come; you have lost the heart of Signior Benedick. BEATRICE Indeed, my lord, he lent it me awhile; and I gave… — William Shakespeare
I am fond of history and am very well contented to take the false with the true. In the principal facts they have sources of… — Jane Austen
You boys know what tropism is, it's what makes a plant grow toward the light. Everything aspires to the light. You don't have to chase… — Tobias Wolff
Knowledge is power." Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty… — Helen Keller
If we are true to ourselves, we can not be false to anyone. — William Shakespeare
... Where did you go?â€ â€œDown below.â€ â€œUgh,â€ she said. â€œIâ€™ve heard theyâ€™re little better than animals.â€ Funny. I thought the same thing about most… — Ann Aguirre
It had been an awful thing to lose Henry the first time, to matrimony, but to discover what a false front he was capable of… — Anna Godbersen
I had seen ardency in men's eyes, but I had only felt it once. With Flauvic, false and therefore easy to dismiss. I suddenly wished… — Sherwood Smith
No more is your master a god, Nobility, but he wants offerings from all. When Black God claims us, who will be punished for giving… — Tamora Pierce
There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs… — Anthony de Mello
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives: Be kind anyway. If you are successful you will win some false friends… — Mother Teresa
We are living in a world where everything is false. The society is like bright paint applied on top of rotten wood. — Amy Tan
He lay on his back in his blankets and looked our where the quartermoon lay cocked over the heel of the mountains. In the false… — Cormac McCarthy
...how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life. — William Faulkner
Sookie, what have we done? And to whom?" "I killed a chicken. And I cooked it." "Sookie, Sookie. My bullshit meter is reading that as… — Charlaine Harris
Wishes are false. Hope is true. Hope makes its own magic. — Laini Taylor
People aren't trees, so it is false when they speak of roots. — Tom Robbins

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