#falsehood

The truth cannot be asserted without denouncing the falsehood. ↗

— Leslie Stephen

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The priest is the personification of falsehood. ↗

— Giuseppe Garibaldi

#personification #priest

It had been an awful thing to lose Henry the first time, to matrimony, but to discover what a false front he was capable of was another kind of blow, and it had left her almost speechless. Then there was the fury with herself—for she had known what Henry’s love was, and still she had gone back to suffer a little more at his hands. ↗

— Anna Godbersen

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The only thing more frustrating than slanderers is those foolish enough to listen to them. ↗

— Criss Jami

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There's a difference between playing and playing games. The former is an act of joy, the latter — an act. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

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Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable. ↗

— Hosea Ballou

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Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood. ↗

— Jean Giraudoux

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Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it? ↗

— Anthony Hope

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Is there an intelligent man or woman now in the world who believes in the Garden of Eden story? If you find any man who believes it, strike his forehead and you will hear an echo. Something is for rent. ↗

— Robert G. Ingersoll

#fairy-tale #falsehood #humor #myth #intelligence

Rumour is a pipe Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures And of so easy and so plain a stop That the blunt monster with uncounted heads, The still-discordant wavering multitude, Can play upon it. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#gossip #libel #public-opinion #reputation #rumor