Quotes of Untruth - somelinesforyou

“ A compliment is a statement of an agreeable truth; flattery is a statement of an agreeable untruth. ”

- Sir John A. MacDonald

“ A new untruth is better than an old truth. ”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

“ Don't lie if you don't have to. ”

- Leo Szilard

“ Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but it's quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves. ”

- Norman Tebbit

“ The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted. ”

- Georg C. Lichtenberg

“ Experience convinces me that permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth and violence. Even if my belief is a fond delusion, it will be admitted that it is a fascinating delusion. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ Truth quenches untruth, love quenches anger, self-suffering quenches violence. This eternal rule is a rule not for saints only but for all. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things. ”

- Robert Southey

“ I rather like getting away from fiction. ”

- Penelope Lively

“ Let then our first act every morning be to make the following resolve for the day: I shall not fear anyone on earth. I shall fear only God. I shall not bear ill will toward anyone. I shall not submit to injustice from anyone. I shall conquer untruth by truth… ”

- Mahatma Gandhi
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