Famous quotes containing the word false:
“Love is too prone to trust. Would I could think
My charges false and all too rashly made.”
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
“Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“That author who draws a character, even though to common view incongruous in its parts, as the flying-squirrel, and, at different periods, as much at variance with itself as the caterpillar is with the butterfly into which it changes, may yet, in so doing, be not false but faithful to facts.”
—Herman Melville (18191891)
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