False Quotes

• I could not tell Himmler everything because he was too false and two-faced.

  

  Walter Schellenberg
  • False
  • Could
  • Himmler

• If you lived in London, where the whole system is one of false good-fellowship, and you may know a man for twenty years without finding out that he hates you like poison, you would soon have your eyes opened. There we do unkind things in a kind way: we say bitter things in a sweet voice: we always give our friends chloroform when we tear them to pieces.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • System
  • London
  • False

• The statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or false.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • True
  • Belief
  • Stability

• Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • True
  • False
  • Ring

• Nothing can be true which is either complete or vacant; every touch is false which does not suggest more than it represents, and every space is false which represents nothing.

  

  John Ruskin
  • False
  • Represents
  • Vacant

• The strange thing about the apocalypse is that it's uneven. For some people, it goes one way and for others another way, so that there's always this shifting relation to the narrative of the disaster. Sometimes apocalypses are just structural fictions, and sometimes they're real. Sometimes a narrative requires an end - the fact that the beginning was always leading somewhere becomes clear at the end. There's an idea that we're always in the middle, but we posit this apocalyptic end in order to also be able to project into the past or the beginning. I think that's true and false.

  

  Ben Lerner
  • Relation
  • Project
  • Disaster

• I think many of the statements in there are false.

  

  Andrew Fastow
  • False
  • Statements

• False self, co-dependent self, unauthentic or public self.

  

  Charles L. Whitfield
  • Self
  • Codependent
  • Unauthentic

• I kind of talk about songwriting in the sense that it's really not my job to try to state hard truths. I'm not out to say this is what truth is, this is what's false, this is reality, this is not reality. What I prefer is to try to create a space where truth can move.

  

  Denison Witmer
  • Reality
  • Create
  • Truths

• True and false are attributes of speech not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither truth nor falsehood. Error theremay be, as when we expect that which shall not be; or suspect what has not been: but in neither case can a man be charged with untruth.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • True
  • Error
  • Charged

• It is possible that I am dreaming right now and that all of my perceptions are false.

  

  Rene Descartes
  • False
  • Dreaming
  • Perceptions

• I went back to Dallas for a little while to finish my short film 'Rusty Forkblade.' It was not the instant success I thought it was going to be. There's a false narrative that if you make a short film right after senior year, you'll be plucked out to make a feature length film, and the rest is history. I didn't do that.

  

  Evan Daugherty
  • History
  • Success
  • Short Film

• False preachers are worse than deflowerers of virgins.

  

  Martin Luther
  • False
  • Preachers
  • Virgins

• As for the author, he is profoundly unaware of what the classical or romantic genre might consist of.... In literature, as in allthings, there is only the good and the bad, the beautiful and the ugly, the true and the false.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Good
  • Author
  • False

• The media needs to do some soul searching on itself and ask why they continue to spread provably false stories, and stop projecting their own dishonesty onto others.

  

  Mike Cernovich
  • Needs
  • Media
  • Continue

• I constantly saw the false and the bad, and finally the absurd and the senseless, standing in universal admiration and honour.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Admiration
  • Honour
  • saw

• Back to thy punishment, False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings.

  

  John Milton
  • Punishment
  • False
  • Fugitive

• There are many trials that seem hard to bear at first which prove true blessings later when we see of what false materials they were first composed.

  

  Stephen Vincent Benet
  • Blessings
  • Materials
  • Trials

• If we are honest - and scientists have to be - we must admit that religion is a jumble of false assertions, with no basis in reality.

  

  Paul Dirac
  • Reality
  • Religion
  • Assertions

• He knew how to say many false things that were like true sayings.

  

  Homer
  • True
  • Knew
  • False

• I think it's false, shallow, to be giving to others when your own need is great. The idea is not to comfort people, not to make them feel better but to make them feel worse, to constantly put before them the degradations and humiliations they go through to get what they call a living wage.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • People
  • Idea
  • Shallow

• When a man mourns for someone who has played him false, it is not for love of her, but for his own humiliation at not having deserved her trust.

  

  Cesare Pavese
  • Love
  • Humiliation
  • Deserved

• Shows itself in the notion that what may be objectively true may in the mouth of certain people become false.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • True
  • False
  • Mouth

• True wisdom is plenty of experience, observation, and reflection. False wisdom is plenty of ignorance, arrogance, and impudence.

  

  Josh Billings
  • True
  • Wisdom
  • False

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