Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Untrue Quotes from famous authors such as John Higgins, Gustave Flaubert, Harvey Fierstein, Timothy Morton, Noelle Stevenson. Let’s look at these pieces of wisdom. We definitely have something to learn from them!
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A lot of nasty and untrue things have been said about me.
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Of all lies, art is the least untrue.
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My play Safe Sex was picked apart because critics thought it was untrue. It was a play in which no one had AIDS, but the characters talked about how it was going to change their lives.
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The belief that ‘animals’ are superior or inferior to humans because they live in an eternal now is untrue, because no being lives in a now.
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A lot of nasty and untrue things have been said about me.
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I think comics has this rap of being misogynistic, and that’s certainly not untrue.
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When it comes to snowing people, one effective technique is to get a whole bunch of verifiable facts right and then add one or two that are untrue.
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I suppose I shouldn’t go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio. When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for it to be transparently untrue. I assume people know when I’m just saying something for effect. Or to be funny.
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Here, loved be God, is all well and truly determined for to resist the malice of him that had best cause to be true, the Duke of Buckingham, the most untrue creature living; whom, with God’s grace, we shall not be long till that we will be in that parts and subdue his malice.
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I think that there have been a lot of fear-based assertions that feminism is about aggression, and that is incorrect and untrue. Feminism is about equality; that’s what it’s about.
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A lot of people have the misconception that I decided to become an actor when Lily became famous and have accused me of jumping on her bandwagon. But that’s completely untrue.
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It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
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To those supporters who were told that I abandoned them, that is untrue. I abandoned greed, corruption, and compromise, never you, and never the artistic gifts and abilities that sustained me.
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Half the lies our opponents tell about us are untrue.
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Trump has broken the news system because he has found ways to go out there, get attention, say a lot of things that are untrue and confuse the public.
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I worry that people think you have to go to a university to be a good writer, which is categorically untrue. I don’t think I learned how to write at Oxford. I did not go to any creative writing classes or anything.
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It’s simply untrue that religion provides the only framework for a universal morality.
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The only way I hear gossip is if it’s big enough and loud enough for my friends to bring it up to me. Or if it’s, like, a big untrue ordeal from my publicist – and she hates making that phone call!
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Bush is good at stating the obviously untrue.
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If I were to call it black music, that would be untrue. I don’t know what that is, unless it would be some African drums or something.
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Emotions can certainly be misleading: they can fool you into believing stuff that is definitely, demonstrably untrue.
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I read the ‘Times’ and ‘Post,’ but I have nothing against the ‘Daily News.’ I also fish around the Internet for entertainment news but find most of what I read to be untrue or partially true.
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War stories deal in death. War illuminates love, while love is the greatest expression of hope, without which any story rings untrue to life. And to deny hope in a story about such darkness is to create false art.
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We tend to regard history as true and ‘The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’ as untrue. That’s always puzzled me.
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The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.
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Living in Pakistan, you didn’t have a sense of how huge and varied America was geographically. I had visited once. I thought of it as this crazy, happy, exciting place where everybody’s rich, and there’s stuff everywhere. Compared to Pakistan, it’s not untrue. Compared to Pakistan, the streets are paved with gold.
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Spent way too many years hating myself, thinking I was less valuable because I was different… which is just untrue.
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In Morocco, there is an insistence on authority. Children are not encouraged to speak up in front of their parents. My parents were not like this. I was the kind of girl who could tell her father, ‘No, what you are saying is totally untrue, and I don’t agree with you.’
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A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
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While it is entirely untrue that Canadians lack a sense of humour, the funniest ones tend to head south: Dan Aykroyd, Jim Carrey, Michael J. Fox.
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People think I’m just an old Luddite, but that’s untrue. I buy every new gizmo as it comes out, play with it until I understand how it works, and then give it away.
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All of their horrific allegations of abuse, threats and purported misconduct by me against Kesha are completely untrue and deeply hurtful.
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To say a democracy prospers only if one set of voices is heard would be untrue.
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It’s always written that my father was a rich, conservative John Bircher. That is untrue. He was not rich. He was not a John Bircher.
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This is a choice, ladies and gentleman, between Texas and Washington. Most of Ted Cruz’s money comes from Washington, from outside the state of Texas, and they’ve run millions and millions of untrue ads against me.
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There have been so many things written about me that are untrue and horrifying.
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Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.
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People think that South Africa and Australia are culturally similar but, having worked in both environments, I found that theory to be untrue.
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If you’re hit with a lawsuit that’s untrue and the reasons you’re hit with it aren’t clear to you, there’s a very big inclination on people’s part to want to take responsibility for it – that this must be happening because I’m a terrible person, I did something, and I’m getting repaid for it.
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I have to say, I have never watched ‘Infowars.’ I know that they say zany things that are patently untrue. But I also think that MSNBC says zany things that are patently untrue.
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The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.
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Here, loved be God, is all well and truly determined for to resist the malice of him that had best cause to be true, the Duke of Buckingham, the most untrue creature living; whom, with God’s grace, we shall not be long till that we will be in that parts and subdue his malice.
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I think it is quite untrue that it is standard journalistic practice to name the interviewer when quoting from an interview.
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Any conversation which does not include the context of the journey of the heart is by definition untrue to who we are as human beings.
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The argument that all Jews have a heartfelt investment in the state of Israel is untrue. Some have a heartfelt investment in corned beef sandwiches.
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I take statements that portray untrue statements about me seriously.
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If enough things that are untrue are said about you, no one will know what really is true.
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Having to respond to things that are made up or untrue tends to be a waste of time.
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In the most polarized and passionate, the most angry and aggressive news environment in recent memory, my job as a journalist requires me – often – to push back in live interviews against comments that are unfair, untrue, or leave me thinking, ‘Is this seriously happening right now?’
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The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.
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Fiction is lies; we’re writing about people who never existed and events that never happened when we write fiction, whether its science fiction or fantasy or western mystery stories or so-called literary stories. All those things are essentially untrue. But it has to have a truth at the core of it.
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The World Trade Center site will forever hold a special place in our city, in our hearts. But we would be untrue to the best part of ourselves and who we are as New Yorkers and Americans if we said no to a mosque in lower Manhattan.
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The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue.
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When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for it to be transparently untrue. I assume people know when I’m just saying something for effect. Or to be funny.
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I think it is quite untrue that it is standard journalistic practice to name the interviewer when quoting from an interview.
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If something were brought about without an antecedent cause, it would be untrue that all things come about through fate. But if it is plausible that all events have an antecedent cause, what ground can be offered for not conceding that all things come about through fate?
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Bush is good at stating the obviously untrue.
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There is no overacting, only untrue acting.
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Sometimes I hear, particularly from Russia, that we simply hate Russia and don’t like to co-operate, that we are hysterical about the risks. But this is totally untrue. We would greatly benefit economically if our neighbour was a democratic, developing country.
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In Morocco, there is an insistence on authority. Children are not encouraged to speak up in front of their parents. My parents were not like this. I was the kind of girl who could tell her father, ‘No, what you are saying is totally untrue, and I don’t agree with you.’
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It’s always written that my father was a rich, conservative John Bircher. That is untrue. He was not rich. He was not a John Bircher.
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It gets embarrassing to say something untrue because you put it online and everyone knows about it, so it’s better to tell the truth.
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I would be lying if I said the journalism doesn’t reflect my own choices as a reporter and a writer: what to say, what to emphasize, how to say it, what is true or untrue.
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There are a lot more tabloids in England that like to report other things in your life, some of which are true and some of which are exaggerated and untrue. There have been stories where people claim to have seen me in one place and I wasn’t even in that city then. The Aussie press is more judgmental and moralistic.
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My play Safe Sex was picked apart because critics thought it was untrue. It was a play in which no one had AIDS, but the characters talked about how it was going to change their lives.
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What I had said was that as a cricketer, you have to take care of your body and look after your fitness levels, and someone altered that statement and quoted me as saying that I wanted to quit playing Test cricket. It’s totally untrue, and as long as I am fit, I want to play in all formats.
