Herodotus Quotes
Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
Herodotus
Quotes to Explore
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People have told me that I'm courageous, but I have seen greater courage.
Gabrielle Giffords
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I love that I love my job, and from what I'm told, that others who I work with do, too.
Natalie Massenet
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I've been sailing from the age of 2, and apparently, when I was 4, I told my dad, 'I know how to do this; you don't have to come with me anymore.'
Nathan Outteridge
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People would ask me why I was doing what I was doing – but I always told them that I just loved to skate. There was no other explanation.
Nancy Kerrigan
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No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
C. S. Lewis
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If I told you about a land of love, friend, would you follow me and come?
Yunus Emre
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A monster, I think, remembering what Ben told me once. War makes Monsters of Men.
Patrick Ness
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One night she told me to put out the garbage. I told her "you cooked it, you take it out".
Jack Roy
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A scholar's business is to add to what is known. That is all. But it is capable of giving the very greatest satisfaction, because knowledge is good. It does not have to look good or even sound good or even do good. It is good just by being knowledge. And the only thing that makes it knowledge is that it is true. You can't have too much of it and there is no little too little to be worth having. There is truth and falsehood in a comma.
Tom Stoppard
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Tangible language, which often tells more falsehoods than truths.
Abraham Lincoln
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When a man has once forfeited the reputation of his integrity, he is set fast, and nothing will then serve his turn, neither truth nor falsehood.
John Tillotson
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To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either enemies or their own citizens, for the good of the state: and no one else may meddle with this privilege.
Plato
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To live a life which is a perpetual falsehood is to suffer unknown tortures.
Victor Hugo
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The night I met him Mijail told me that, for some reason, life usually grants us what we are not looking for.
Carlo D'Este
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We told each other everything, even the little things, and were happy.
Elena Ferrante
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She never told her love, but let concealment, like a worm 'i th' bud, feed on her damask cheek. She pinned in thought; and, with a green and yellow melancholy, she sat like Patience on a monument, smiling at grief. Was not this love indeed? We men may say more, swear more; but indeed our shows are more than will; for we still prove much in our vows but little in our love.
William Shakespeare
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I plead - that it's very difficult when you deal with - ISIS and organizations like that whose - whose behavior is so barbaric and so vicious - that it doesn't seem to have any purpose other than lust for killing and power. And that's very difficult to put ourselves in other shoes.
Hillary Clinton
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Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
Herodotus
