Untrue Quotes

181 Untrue quotes by 158 unique authors

The cliche of the nerdy kid who doesn't go outside and just plays games is completely untrue. And it's also true for the nerdy kid… — Penn Jillette
When you're young you think that you're going to sail into a lovely lake of quietude and peace. This is profoundly untrue. — Doris Lessing
The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be… — Edward R. Murrow
The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time. — Arthur Schopenhauer
The only way I hear gossip is if it's big enough and loud enough for my friends to bring it up to me. Or if… — Taylor Swift
I wish, naturally to prevent the possibility that someone may write an accidental, superficial, incomplete and perhaps untrue picture of me. — Conrad Veidt
I think it is quite untrue that it is standard journalistic practice to name the interviewer when quoting from an interview. — Fareed Zakaria
The true story is vicious and multiple and untrue after all. Why do you need it? Don’t ever ask for the true story. — Margaret Atwood
Anyone in any walk of life who is content with mediocrity is untrue to himself and to American tradition. — George S. Patton
We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts… — George Orwell
Gandalf! I thought you were dead! But then I thought I was dead myself. Is everything sad going to come untrue? What's happened to the… — J.R.R. Tolkien
If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare me a citizen of the world.… — Albert Einstein
For men, as a rule, love is but an episode which takes place among the other affairs of the day, and the emphasis laid on… — W. Somerset Maugham
They loved, and quarreled, and made up, and loved, and fought, and were true to each other and untrue. She made him the happiest man… — Tom Stoppard
If Christianity is untrue, then no honest man will want to believe it, however helpful it might be; if it is true, every honest man… — C.S. Lewis
In any war story, but especially a true one, it's difficult to separate what happened from what seemed to happen. What seems to happen becomes… — Tim O'Brien
Because they claim to be concerned with the welfare of whole societies, governments arrogate to themselves the right to pass off as mere abstract profit… — Michel Foucault
This symmetrical composition--the same motif at the beginning and at the end--may seem quite "novelistic" to you, and I am willing to agree, but only… — Milan Kundera
I have heard stories that it was love at first sight for both of us, that we disappeared to a guest room at Merle's house,… — Martha Graham
Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art. — Oscar Wilde
We may never become accustomed to untrue and unjust criticism of us but we ought not to be immobilized by it. — Neal A. Maxwell
We can't believe what we believe to be untrue, and we can't love what we believe to be unreal. — Peter Kreeft
It goes against the American storytelling grain to have someone in a situation he can't get out of, but I think this is very usual… — Kurt Vonnegut
After the temper subsides and one has a moment to calmly reflect, it isn't uncommon for declarations shouted in a fit of rage to strike… — Frank Beddor
If you put your hand into a fire, does anyone have to tell you to move it? Do you have to decide? No: When your… — Byron Katie

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