False Quotes - page 2

False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing. (Joseph de Maistre)
A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World! View quote
Henry Fielding
California is a queer place in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific. It is absolutely selfish, very empty, but not false, and at least, not full of false effort. View quote
D. H. Lawrence
No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling, even if it be only the faintest shadow - and if it does not do so it is bad art and false morals. View quote
Kenneth Clark
Be true to thyself, as thou be not false to others. View quote
Francis Bacon
There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false. View quote
Harold Pinter
The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant. View quote
Salvador Dalí
To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man. View quote
William Shakespeare
To the untrue man, the whole universe is false- it is impalpable- it shrinks to nothing within his grasp. And he himself is in so far as he shows himself in a false light, becomes a shadow, or, indeed, ceases to exist. View quote
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false. View quote
Thomas Aquinas
When jazz is played in another nation, it is called American. When it is played in another country, it sounds false. Jazz is the result of the energy stored up in America. (George Gershwin)
All Faith is false, all Faith is true: Truth is the shattered mirror strown In myriad bits; while each believes his little bit the whole to own. View quote
Richard Francis Burton
Canadians want to see real hope restored, not false hopes raised. View quote
Kim Campbell
I'm not a film star, I am an actress. Being a film star is such a false life, lived for fake values and for publicity. View quote
Vivien Leigh
The following statement is true. The previous statement is false. View quote
George Carlin
False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports. View quote
Richard Burton
If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false. View quote
M. H. Abrams
What unhappy beings men are! They constantly waver between false hopes and silly fears, and instead of relying on reason they create monsters to frighten themselves with, and phantoms which lead them astray. View quote
Montesquieu
The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful. View quote
Edward Gibbon
A man writes to throw off the poison which he has accumulated because of his false way of life. He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate the world with a virus of his disillusionment. No man would set a word down on paper if he had the courage to live out what he believed in. View quote
Henry Miller
SCRIPTURES, n. The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based. (Ambrose Bierce)
History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false. View quote
E. O. Wilson
Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings. View quote
John Dryden
Writing, printing, and the Internet give a false sense of security about the permanence of culture. View quote
Jane Jacobs