The crime of cowards. [ Dr. Johnson ]

Falsehood is cowardice. [ Hosea Ballou ]

Falsehood is for a season. [ Landor ]

No falsehood can endure
Touch of celestial temper. [ Milton ]

A lie never lives to be old. [ Sophocles ]

There is falsehood in fellowship. [ Proverb ]

Past all shame, so past all truth. [ William Shakespeare ]

Falsehood and death are synonymous. [ Bancroft ]

False as the fowler's artful snare. [ Smollett ]

Wrong is but falsehood put in practice. [ Landor ]

O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath! [ William Shakespeare ]

Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult. [ George Eliot ]

Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood. [ H. Ballou ]

Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty. [ Tacitus ]

This shows that liars ought to have good memories. [ Algernon Sidney ]

Better suffer for truth than prosper by falsehood. [ Danish Proverb ]

And none speaks false, when there is none to hear. [ Beattie ]

False modesty is the most decent of all falsehoods. [ Chamfort ]

It is the act of a bad man to deceive by falsehood. [ Cicero ]

Falsehoods which we spurn today were the truths of long ago. [ Whittier ]

Let a man be never so wise, he may be caught with sober lies. [ Swift ]

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all. [ O. W. Holmes ]

And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but The truth in masquerade. [ Byron ]

Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide,
In the strife of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side. [ Lowell ]

Falsehood always endeavors to copy the mien and attitude of truth. [ Dr. Johnson ]

Where fraud and falsehood invade society, the band presently breaks. [ South ]

Falsehood and fraud shoot up in every soil The product of all climes. [ Addison ]

We never deceive for a good purpose; knavery adds malice to falsehood. [ Bruyere ]

Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood, and nearly as blamable. [ H. Ballon ]

He who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying. [ Montaigne ]

None can be pleased without praise, and few can be praised without falsehood. [ Dr. Johnson ]

Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves. [ Daniel Webster ]

Large offers and sturdy rejections are among the most common topics of falsehood. [ Johnson ]

Money and man a mutual falsehood show. Men make false money, - money makes men so. [ Aleyn ]

The dull flat falsehood serves for policy, and in the cunning, truth's itself a lie. [ Pope ]

These lies are like the father that begets them; gross as a mountain, open, palpable. [ William Shakespeare ]

Only a woman will believe in a man who has once been detected in fraud and falsehood. [ Dumas, Pere ]

For my part, if a lie may do thee grace, I'll gild it' with the happiest terms I have. [ William Shakespeare ]

Who dares think one thing, and another tell, My heart detests him as the gates of hell. [ Homer ]

There is no such thing as a white lie; a lie is as black as a coal-pit, and twice as foul. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

Falsehood is often rocked by truth; but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse. [ Colton ]

Cottages have them (falsehood and dissimulation) as well as courts, only with worse manners. [ Lord Chesterfield ]

Falsehood, like the dry-rot, flourishes the more in proportion as air and light are excluded. [ Whately ]

That the voice of the common people is the voice of God is as full of falsehood as commonness. [ Warwick ]

Dishonor waits on perfidy. A man should blush to think a falsehood; it is the crime of cowards. [ Johnson ]

For no falsehood can endure touch of celestial temper, but returns of force to its own likeness. [ Milton ]

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water. [ Cervantes ]

I have seldom known any one who deserted truth in trifles that could be trusted in matters of importance. [ Paley ]

To tell a falsehood is like the cut of a saber; for though the wound may heal, the sear of it will remain. [ Sadi ]

They begin with making falsehood appear like truth, and end with making truth itself appear like falsehood. [ Shenstone ]

It is an art without art, which has its beginning in falsehood, its middle in toil, and its end in poverty. [ From the Latin ]

Dissembling profiteth nothing; a feigned countenance, and slightly forged externally, deceiveth but very few. [ Seneca ]

Every lie, great or small, is the brink of a precipice, the depth of which nothing but omniscience can fathom. [ Reade ]

There are no friends more inseparable than pride and hardness of heart, humility and love, falsehood and impudence. [ Lavater ]

It is more from carelessness about truth, than from intentional lying, that there is so much falsehood in the world. [ Johnson ]

Truth is simple and gives little trouble, but falsehood gives occasion for the frittering away of time and strength. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Man is nothing but insincerity, falsehood, and hypocrisy. He does not like to hear the truth, and he shuns telling it. [ Pascal ]

Every man turns his dreams into realities as far as he can. Man is cold as ice to the truth, but as fire to falsehood. [ La Fontaine ]

Every one turns his dreams into realities as far as he can; man is cold as ice to the truth, hot as fire to falsehood. [ La Fontaine ]

There is no merit where there is no trial; and, till experience stamps the mark of strength, cowards may pass for heroes, faith for falsehood. [ Aaron Hill ]

When a man has once forfeited the reputation of his integrity, he is set fast; and nothing will then serve his turn, neither truth nor falsehood. [ Tillotson ]

The more weakness the more falsehood; strength goes straight; every cannon-ball that has in it hollows and holes goes crooked; weaklings must lie. [ Richter ]

Exaggeration is not only one form of falsehood, it is one of its worst forms: since the swollen and contagious body gains admission by walking in upon healthy legs. [ Berz ]

Exaggeration, as to rhetoric, is using a vast force to lift a feather; as to morals and character, it is using falsehood to lift one's self out of the confidence of his fellow-men. [ Hugo Amot ]

O brave poets! keep back nothing, nor mix falsehood with the whole; look up Godward; speak the truth in worthy song from earnest soul; hold, in high poetic duty, truest truth the fairest beauty! [ Mrs. Browning ]

Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us as those that are not wholly wrong, as no watches so effectually deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right. [ Colton ]

Our opinions are not our own, but in the power of sympathy. If a person tells us a palpable falsehood, we not only dare not contradict him, but we dare hardly disbelieve him to his face. A lie boldly uttered has the effect of truth for the instant. [ Hazlitt ]

The essence of humour is sensibility, warm, tender, fellow-feeling with all forms of existence; and unless seasoned and purified by humour, sensibility is apt to run wild, will readily corrupt into disease, falsehood, or, in one word, sentimentality. [ Carlyle ]

Errors to be dangerous must have a great deal of truth mingled with them; it is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation; from pure extravagance, and genuine, unmingled falsehood, the world never has, and never can sustain any mischief. [ Sydney Smith ]

It is very singular, how the fact of a man's death often seems to give people a truer idea of his character, whether for good or evil, than they have ever possessed while he was living and acting among them. Death is so genuine a fact that it excludes falsehood or betray its emptiness; it is a touchstone that proves the gold, and dishonors the baser metal. [ Hawthorne ]