Falsity Quotes

Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.

The great enemy of the truth is often not the lie ... but the myth.

The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.

The fact that we don't keep repeating tests in the same arena is not because the probability of the hypothesis showing its falsity in other arenas goes up after it has passed tests in one arena.

Arguments that prove too much prove nothing.

If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory!

All men prefer a false promise to a flat refusal.

It is as bad to clip conscience as to clip coin; it is as bad to give a counterfeit statement as a counterfeit bill.

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.

Sometimes the point isn't to make people believe a lie - it's to make people fear the liar.

There were people who lied for gain, people who lied from pain, people who lied simply because the concept of telling the truth was utterly alien to them . . . and then there were people who lied because they were waiting for it to be time to tell the truth.

There is no lake at Camp Green Lake.

I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.

Neither man nor angel can discern Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks Invisible, except to God alone.

The little bit of truth contained in many a lie is what makes them so terrible.

Lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to truth.

I think all politicians lie.

Foolishly play with the fires of rumor, only to risk being burned by its treacherous flames.

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Lies are infinite in number, and the truth so small and singular.

Liars ought to have good memories.

Go ahead and gamble a lie. A person who will not tell you seven lies within a hundred yards is useless as a man.

Lies, lies are the place where darkness grows.

A delusion is something that people believe in despite a total lack of evidence.