Quotes for All
Oh! that look of love!\” continued he, between his teeth, as he bolted himself into his own private room. \”And that cursed lie; which showed some terrible shame in the background, to be kept from the light in which I thought she lived perpetually! Oh, Margaret, Margaret! Mother, how you have tortured me! Oh! Margaret, … Read more
O brave poets, keep back nothing; Nor mix falsehood with the whole! Look up Godward! speak the truth in Worthy song from earnest soul! Hold, in high poetic duty, Truest Truth the fairest Beauty. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Weakness ever sympathizes with vice, because vice is a weakness which assumes the mask of strength. Madness holds reason in horror, and on all subjects it delights in the exaggerations of falsehood. The cause of all bewitchments, the poison of all philtres, the power of all sorcerers are there. Eliphas Levi
Lying is sometimes acted, insinuated, or implied, in a manner as injurious and shameful as when the falsehood is spoken outright. Elias Lyman Magoon
Organized religion, being founded on superstition, is, perforce, not scientific. And all that which is not scientific – that is, truthful – must be bolstered up by force, fear and falsehood. Thus we always find slavery and organized religion going hand in hand. Elbert Hubbard
A small lie, if it actually is a lie, condemns a man as much as a big and black falsehood. If a man will deliberately cheat to the amount of a single cent, give him opportunity and he would cheat to any amount. Edwin Hubbel Chapin
In short, there are certain fundamental requisites for wise and resolute democratic leadership. It must build on hope, not on fear; on honesty, not on falsehood; on justice, not on injustice; on public tranquility, not on violence; on freedom, not on enslavement. Edmund Ezra Day
Falsehood and delusion are allowed in no case whatever; but, as in the exercise of all the virtues, there is an economy of truth. It is a sort of temperance, by which a man speaks truth with measure, that he may speak it the longer. Edmund Burke
Falsehood is a perennial spring. Edmund Burke
Whatever may be the sociological value of the legal fiction that ‘all men are born free and equal,’ there can be no doubt that…in its biological application, at any rate, this statement is one of the most stupendous falsehoods ever uttered by man through his misbegotten gift of articulate speech. Earnest Hooton