False Quotes

What is not in the open street is false, derived, that is to say, literature.

Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness.

I think the attempt to draw a comparison between Iran and Syria is false, misleading and dangerous.

The idea really came to me the day I got my new false teeth.

Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.

If you get into multicultural sort of casting for no other reason than to diversify, then it seems false.

'Sex' is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other.

The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.

Ring out the false, ring in the true.

Writers of historical fiction are not under the same obligation as historians to find evidence for the statements they make. For us it is sufficient if what we say can't be disproved or shown to be false.

That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.

That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.

The biggest thing is to make sure that when something comes out about you that is false that you prove it's not true.

Oh, do not read history, for that I know must be false.

It is not true that virtually all news in a totalitarian state is false.

False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis.

Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.

Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.

Sentences are not as such either true or false.

Many of the criticisms about McDonald's are false. We are keen to provide people with as much nutritional information as possible to help them manage their diets.

Eclecticism - every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

The documents have not been conclusively proven false. Neither have they been proven authentic.

I don't have false teeth. Do you think I'd buy teeth like these?

There's never a false note in a Berg novel.

I thought then, and I think now, that the invasion of Iraq was unnecessary and unjust. And I think the premises on which it was launched were false.

He who is false to the present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and you will see the effect when the weaving of a life-time is unraveled.

This industry is very make-believe and you caught in a false sense of what reality is.

The people who were honored in the Bible were the false prophets. It was the ones we call the prophets who were jailed and driven into the desert.

Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain.

Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?

Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.

A blunt statement can be as false as any other.

Regarding comments attributed to me in the Los Angeles Times - allegedly made on a bus trip from Germany to Holland in 1998 - I emphatically denounce such comments as false.

Our pleasance here is all vain glory, This false world is but transitory.

The personal appearances and red carpet events are very glitzy, but it's a bit false.

What I find interesting is that the people that follow your Twitters are called 'followers.' Talk about false idolatry, right?

Novelists are always resisting autobiographical readings of their work, because they know how false those can be.

Around 1967 I began backing away from dogmatic Leninism, not so much because I thought it was false, I just decided there was nothing utopian about it.

And $18 million in three Japanese banks, completely false. That I have two factories in Panama, also completely false. This is part of the counter campaign of some people.

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.

I don't believe in the deplorable notion of realism in the cinema: you can over-reach it, and it becomes as false as convention.

Compare Scripture with Scripture. False doctrines, like false witnesses, agree not among themselves.

I can't think of a major story that we have broken that was incorrect. But we have had to correct some things that were false; we have had to retract things.

They do not depend upon mere legends and myths. They are not predicated on the false conception that the Emperor is divine and that the Japanese people are superior to other races.

The Galatians are severely censured for giving heed to false doctrines, and are called to pronounce even an apostle anathema, if he preached another gospel.

There is nothing false or arrogant about German pride in German technical and business skills.

Whatever I do seems artificial and false, to me.

I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false.

These charges that have been made against me, that Prof. Prescott has made, has charged against me, that I denied the atonement in conversation with him, are absolutely false.

A hair divides what is false and true.

Sentimentality is intolerable because it is false feeling.

There is nothing that is more often clothed in an attractive garb than a false creed.

The eyebrow pencil and false eyelashes were essential; my mother didn't feel dressed without them.

There is a false assumption about the Parti Quebecois that we don't know anything about the economy... Well that's a myth.

I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet.

Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.

Malice scorned, puts out itself; but argued, give a kind of credit to a false accusation.

'Occupy' is nothing but a pack of louts, thieves, and rapists, an unruly mob, fed by Woodstock-era nostalgia and putrid false righteousness. These clowns can do nothing but harm America.

The truth can not be drowned by any flood of false indictments.

I'm fine, and my hips are fine. My false knee is fine. My false hips are fine. Everything's cooking.

False modesty can be worse than arrogance.

Flirt!'s mascara is insane - I don't need false lashes when I wear it.

You proceed from a false assumption: I have no ego to bruise.

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.

False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.

My work is not great, but it's respectable. I have no false illusions.

Now that I have called you on your false accusation, you are using additional smear tactics.

I was never directly pressured by peers, but by surrounding myself with others who were experimenting with smoking provided a certain false comfort.

We can love an honest rogue, but what is more offensive than a false saint?

The longest sword, the strongest lungs, the most voices, are false measures of truth.

The war on Iraq was a disaster, clearly carried out under false pretences.