Falsehood Quote by Italo Calvino

Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.

— Aleister Crowley

True and False are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither Truth nor Falsehood.

— Thomas Hobbes

Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult. Even with no motive to be false, it is very hard to say the exact truth.

— George Eliot

A Falsehood is, in one sense, a dead thing; but too often it moves about, galvanized by self-will, and pushes the living out of…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Falsehoods border on truths.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Falsehood is never better than truth, theft better than honesty, treachery better than loyalty, cowardice better than courage.

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.

— Marcel Proust

Falsehood always punishes itself.

— Frank Auerbach

Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.

— Jonathan Swift

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

— Anonymous

Falsehood falsehood cures

— William Shakespeare

Falsehood always endeavors to copy the mien and attitude of truth.

— Samuel Johnson