Air Quote by Richard Whately

Falsehood is fire in stubble; it likewise turns all the light stuff around it into its own substance for a moment, one crackling blazing…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Falsehood is a perennial spring.

— Edmund Burke

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

Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

— Albert Camus

“Look beneath the surface. Things are usually very different from how they initially appeared, and ignorance, which didn't look beneath the surface, turns to…

— Baltasar Gracián

Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.

— Jonathan Swift

A lie should be trampled on and extinguished wherever found. I am for fumigating the atmosphere when I suspect that falsehood, like pestilence, breathes…

— Thomas Carlyle

Falsehood is never in words; it is in things.

— Italo Calvino

Truth is a torch which gleams in the fog but does not dispel it.

— Claude Adrien Helvetius

The buried truth germinates and breaks through to the light.

— George Bernard Shaw

There is no doubt that truth is to falsehood as light is to darkness; and so excellent a thing is truth that even when…

— Leonardo da Vinci

It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance.

— Thomas Paine