Famous quotes containing the word falsehood:
“Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth.
Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality.
Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself,
So the weary travelers may find repose.”
—Czeslaw Milosz (b. 1911)
“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)
“Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.”
—Herodotus (c. 484–424 B.C.)