False Confessions

Famous quotes containing the words false and/or confessions:

    “Passions spin the plot:
    We are betrayed by what is false within.”
    —George Meredith (1828–1909)

    “My confessions are shameless. I confess, but do not repent. The fact is, my confessions are prompted, not by ethical motives, but intellectual. The confessions are to me the interesting records of a self-investigator.”
    —W.N.P. Barbellion (1889–1919)