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#falsehood

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


Jean Giraudoux


#element #everyone #falsehood #learns #live

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


Anthony Hope


#generally #misunderstand #people #promoting #telling

Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.


Marcel Proust


#everything #falsehood #little #passes #spoken

Look on beauty, And you shall see 'tis purchased by the weight; Which therein works a miracle in nature, Making them lightest that wear most of it: So are those crisped snaky golden locks Which make such wanton gambols with the wind, Upon supposed fairness, often known To be the dowry of a second head, The skull that bred them in the sepulchre. Thus ornament is but the guiled shore To a most dangerous sea; the beauteous scarf Veiling an Indian beauty; in a word, The seeming truth which cunning times put on To entrap the wisest.


William Shakespeare


#beauty #falsehood #ornament #pretense #beauty

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

I've been working hard at assuming Court polish, but the more I learn about what really goes on behind the pretty voices and waving fans and graceful bows, the more I comprehend that what is really said matters little, so long as the manner in which it is said pleases. I understand it, but I don't like it. Were I truly influential, then I would halt this foolishness that decrees that in Court one cannot be sick; that to admit you are sick is really to admit to political or social or romantic defeat; that to admit to any emotions usually means one really feels the opposite. It is a terrible kind of falsehood that people can only claim feelings as a kind of social weapon.


Sherwood Smith


#falsehood #social-weapons #truth #romantic

To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.


Aristophanes


#falsehood #government #hypocrisy #politics #popularity

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.


Hosea Ballou


#cowardice #falsehood #truth

Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.


Albert Camus


#blinds #contrary #enhances #every #falsehood

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.


Miguel de Cervantes


#always #broken #cannot #does #falsehood






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