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False Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol,…
- There is no great harm in the theorist who makes up a new theory to fit a new event. But the theorist who starts with…
- As to the doubt of the soul I discover it to be false: a mood not a conclusion. My conclusion is the Faith. Corporate, organized,…
- I never said a word against eminent men of science. What I complain of is a vague popular philosophy which supposes itself to be scientific…
- If a man called Christmas Day a mere hypocritical excuse for drunkenness and gluttony, that would be false, but it would have a fact hidden…
- I entertain a private suspicion that physical sports were much more really effective and beneficent when they were not taken quite so seriously. One of…
- A man is angry at a libel because it is false, but at a satire because it is true.
More False Quotes
- Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore. — Matthew Arnold
- A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently. — Saint Augustine
- We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race,… — Dan Aykroyd
- Do not be misled by what you see around you, or be influenced by what you see. You live in a world… — Sai Baba
- An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often… — Russell Baker
- You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain. — Stanley Baldwin
- I am so spoiled. I cannot watch a show where it gets interrupted for ads. I have to TiVo it and skip… — Alan Ball
- I say I'm the only serious comedian in the presidential race. And I'd like to take this opportunity to ask both Romney… — Roseanne Barr
- Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget… — Ethel Barrymore
- A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we… — Saul Bellow
- It's all false pressure; you put the heat on yourself, you get it from the networks and record companies and movie studios.… — John Belushi
- History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools. — Ambrose Bierce