Untrue Quotes

181 Untrue quotes by 158 unique authors

It becomes still more difficult to find Words at once true and kind, Or not untrue and not unkind. — Philip Larkin
Despite all that good news, there's plenty of horror stories being told. All of them are untrue, but they're being told all over America, — Harry Reid
Every life is its own excuse for being, and to deny or refute the untrue things that are said of you is an error in… — Elbert Hubbard
It is quite untrue that British people don't appreciate music. They may not understand it but they absolutely love the noise it makes. — Thomas Beecham
The ingrained idea that, because there is no king and they despise titles, the Americans are a free people is pathetically untrue. . . .… — Margot Asquith
I ask but one thing of you, only one, That always you will be my dream of you; That never shall I wake to find… — Amy Lowell
There's this illusion that homosexuals have sex and heterosexuals fall in love. That's completely untrue. Everybody wants to be loved. — Boy George
Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it… — Benjamin Haydon
People settle for so much less because they find their identities in the world's fickle and untrue opinions. God made you royal with His blood.… — Lacey Mosley
When I go stand up at the podium in front of the White House press corps, I never lie. I never say something that I… — Jay Carney
Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought. A theory however elegant and economical must be rejected or… — John Rawls
A picture is a thing which requires as much knavery, as much malice, and as much vice as the perpetration of a crime. Make it… — Edgar Degas
I would be lying if I said the journalism doesn't reflect my own choices as a reporter and a writer: what to say, what to… — David Simon
The point is that we are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong,… — George Orwell
The child intuitively comprehends that although these stories are unreal, they are not untrue ... — Bruno Bettelheim
Do not take the yardstick of your ignorance to measure what the ancients knew, and call everything which you do not know lies. Do not… — Wendell Phillips
A thought, once uttered, is untrue — Fyodor Tyutchev
Half the lies our opponents tell about us are untrue. — Boyle Roche
I looked at Mum and realized -- twang! -- that she was telling an untruth. A big untruth. And I remember thinking in that instant… — Christopher Buckley
People forget that stereotypes aren’t bad because they are always untrue. Stereotypes are bad because they are not always true. If we allow ourselves to… — George Takei
Knowledge and understanding are life's faithful companions who will never prove untrue to you. For knowledge is your crown, and understanding your staff; and when… — Khalil Gibran
The great argument used now against any theological proposition is not, that it is untrue, or unthinkable, or unedifying, or unscriptural, or unorthodox, but simply,… — Ronald Knox
When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for it to be transparently untrue. I assume people know when I'm just saying something… — Ira Glass
It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil,... that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having… — George McGovern
The mythology about the UN is absolutely breathtaking. People believe it costs a great deal of money to the United States. Completely untrue: it doesn't.… — Unknown Author

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