Falsehood Quote by Jean Giraudoux Download Open image “Falsehood is the jockey of misfortune.” — Jean Giraudoux ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Falsehood Jockeys Lying Misfortunes
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 Copy Share Image
Not the least misfortune in a prominent falsehood is the fact that tradition is apt to repeat it for truth. — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another. — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us, as those that are… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Sadness flies on the wings of the morning, and out of the heart of darkness comes the light. — Jean Giraudoux Copy Share Image
To seek out in a world full of joy the one thing that is certain to give you pain, and hug it to your… — Jean Giraudoux Copy Share Image
When a grown man reaches forty, we change him for an old one. He has completely disappeared. There's only the most superficial resemblance between… — Jean Giraudoux Copy Share Image
There is an invisible garment woven around us from our earliest years; it is made of the way we eat, the way we walk,… — Jean Giraudoux Copy Share Image
A wife loves out of duty, and duty leads to constraint, and constraint kills desire. — Jean Giraudoux Copy Share Image
The brave men die in war. It takes great luck or judgment not to be killed. Once, at least, the head has to bow… — Jean Giraudoux Copy Share Image
As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum. — Jean Giraudoux Copy Share Image
I don't like knowing about other people's feelings. There is nothing more embarrassing. Just as when you play cards and you see your opponent's… — Jean Giraudoux Copy Share Image
I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life. — Jean Giraudoux Copy Share Image
I believe in the gods; or rather I believe that I believe in the gods. But I don't believe that they are great brooding… — Jean Giraudoux Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
THE ART OF PEACE is not easy. It is a fight to the finish, the slaying of evil desires and all falsehood within. On… — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
A mind conscious of right laughs at the falsehoods of rumour. [Lat., Conscia mens recti famae mendacia risit.] — Ovid Copy Share Image
So true is it that all transactions of preeminent importance are wrapt in doubt and obscurity; while some hold for certain facts the most… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught in falsehood's school, and the one man that dares to… — Plato Copy Share Image
It is a dangerous and fateful presumption, besides the absurd temerity that it implies, to disdain what we do not comprehend. For after you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whether statistics be an art or a science... or a scientific art, we concern ourselves little. It is the basis of social and political… — Adolphe Quetelet Copy Share Image
Falsehood, like the dry-rot, flourishes the more in proportion as air and light are excluded. — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
People who do not know the Bible well have been gulled into thinking it is a good guide to morality. This mistaken view may… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image