Falsely

Famous quotes containing the word falsely:

“The reverence for the deeds of our ancestors is a treacherous sentiment. Their merit was not to reverence the old, but to honor the present moment; and we falsely make them excuses of the very habit which they hated and defied.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic.”
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841–1935)

“One word is too often profaned
For me to profane it,
One feeling too falsely disdained
For thee to disdain it;”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)