False Quotes
1931 quotes by 1326 authors
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You seek a false comfort when you demand that I define myself for you with words. Words do not contain or define any person. A…
— Robin Hobb
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We wants it, we needs it. Must have the precious. They stole it from us. Sneaky little hobbitses. Wicked, tricksy, false!
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Maybe my movie isn't over, I say, because sometimes moviemakers trick the audience with a false bad ending, and just when you think the movie…
— Matthew Quick
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Curse false-hand-holding boys!
— Lauren Myracle
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Why do I doubt her? Perhaps she is just very sensitive, and hypersensitive people are false when others doubt them; they waver. And one thinks…
— Anais Nin
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I have a theory about marriage, Monsieur Boustouler. And it's that nearly always you will know within two weeks if it's going to work. It's…
— Khaled Hosseini
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Why are we such tortured human beings, with tears in our eyes and false laughter on our lips? If you could walk alone among those…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Many theories of the ancient world seem terribly childish today, a hodge-podge of fables and false comparisons.But our theories will seem childish five-hundred years from…
— Jacob Bronowski
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The cruelest thing you can do to a person who's living in panic is to offer him or her hope that turns out false. When…
— Robert Ludlum
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Passing time adds false memories and modifies real ones.
— Stephen King
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There is no more sagacious animal than the Icelandic horse. He is stopped by neither snow, nor storm, nor impassable roads, nor rocks, glaciers, or…
— Jules Verne
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Facts, even false ones, cannot be copyrighted.
— John Green
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But that wasn´t the first time I ever saw her. I saw her in the hallways at school, and at my mother’s false funeral, and…
— Veronica Roth
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For people who live in the imagination, there is no lack of subjects. To seek for the exact moment at which inspiration comes is false.…
— Federico Fellini
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One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false. It comes to be the dominating thought…
— Vince Lombardi
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Success will win you false friends and true enemies - succeed anyway.
— Mother Teresa
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And let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once! And let that wisdom be false to us that brought…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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To those searching for truth -- not the truth of dogma and darkness but the truth brought by reason, search, examination, and inquiry, discipline is…
— Thomas A. Edison
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False rhetoric and false boastfulness spell moral ruin and lead unfailingly to political extinction.
— Vladimir Lenin
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All generalizations are false, including this one.
— Mark Twain
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