False or falsehood may refer to:
- False (logic)
- Lie or falsehood, a type of deception in the form of an untruthful statement
- Falsity or falsehood, in law, deceitfulness by one party that results in damage to another
- Falsies padding for use in a brassiere to create the appearance of larger breasts
- FALSE, a programming language
- false (Unix), a Unix command
- False (album), an album by Gorefest
- Matthew Dear or False, American DJ and producer
- Falsehood (film), a 2001 American short film starring Marie-Noelle Marquis
Famous quotes containing the word false:
“Whereas the comic confronts simply logical contradictions, the tragic confronts a moral predicament. Not minor matters of true and false but crucial questions of right and wrong, good and evil face the tragic character in a tragic situation.”
—Marie Collins Swabey. Comic Laughter, ch. 7, Yale University Press (1961)
“Rhyme, the rack of finest wits,
That expresseth but by fits
True conceit,
Spoiling senses of their treasure,
Cozening judgment with a measure,
But false weight;
Wresting words from their true calling;
Propping verse for fear of falling
To the ground;
Jointing syllables, drowning letters,
Fastening vowels, as with fetters
They were bound!”
—Ben Jonson (1572–1637)
“But you must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in other particulars, know, that there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty reaches to this point also, that he shall not kneel to false gods, and, on the day when you meet him, you sink into the class of counterfeits.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)