A would-be satirist, a hired buffoon,
A monthly scribbler of some low lampoon,
Condemned to drudge, the meanest of the mean,
And furbish falsehoods for a magazine. [ Byron ]

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

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

Unpleasing errors are never so welcome as pleasing falsehoods. [ Proverb ]

Tangible language, which often tells more falsehoods than truths. [ Abraham Lincoln ]

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

Vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]

He that, by often arguing against his own sense, imposes falsehoods on others, is not far from believing them himself. [ Locke ]

As the greatest liar tells more truths than falsehoods, so may it be said of the worst man, that he does more good than evil. [ Dr. Johnson ]

Death is so genuine a fact that it excludes falsehoods, or betrays its emptiness; it is a touchstone that proves the gold, and dishonors the baser metal. [ Hawthorne ]