False Prophets

Famous quotes containing the words false and/or prophets:

    if thou slip thy troth and do not come at all.
    As minutes in the clock do strike so call for death I shall:
    To please both thy false heart, and rid myself from woe,
    That rather had to die in troth than live forsaken so.
    —Unknown. The Lady Prayeth the Return of Her Lover Abiding on the Seas (l. 19–22)

    Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.
    Feodor Dostoyevsky (1821–1881)