Famous quotes containing the word falsehood:
“Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.”
—Herodotus (c. 484–424 B.C.)
“We aim above the mark, to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“I know how ingratitude burns, how falsehood tortures, for I have been deceived in friendship and in love; I have learned to lose and to resign myself.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)