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All knots that lovers tie Are tied to sever. Here shall your sweetheart lie, Untrue for ever. -- A. E. Housman
Michele Bachmann says God made the earthquake and hurricane to punish us. Untrue - he made Michele Bachmann for that. -- Andy Borowitz
Of all lies, art is the least untrue. -- Gustave Flaubert
A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue. -- Antisthenes
Emotions can certainly be misleading: they can fool you into believing stuff that is definitely, demonstrably untrue. -- Francis Spufford
If enough things that are untrue are said about you, no one will know what really is true. -- Tom Stoppard
It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue. -- Stephen Fry
The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
I wish, naturally to prevent the possibility that someone may write an accidental, superficial, incomplete and perhaps untrue picture of me. -- Conrad Veidt
When you're young you think that you're going to sail into a lovely lake of quietude and peace. This is profoundly untrue. -- Doris Lessing
To people who don't know me I'm defined by a number of things that people know about me that are entirely untrue. -- Daniel Day-Lewis
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be. -- William James
I will say again that I have never, and would never, harm a child. It sickens me that people have written untrue things about me. -- Michael Jackson
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. -- Judith Butler
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. -- Simon Hoggart
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. -- Edward R. Murrow
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. -- Benjamin Haydon
Everywhere you go you hear things that are untrue. You've just got to learn that if I don't say it, physically out of my mouth, on camera, it's not true. -- Selena Gomez
We're lying ourselves into believing things are untrue, like organic food will solve all our problems, or vitamins will make us healthy, or we don't need to vaccinate our children. -- Michael Specter
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. -- Lauryn Hill
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! -- Taylor Swift
It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn't give enough. -- Quentin Crisp
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. -- Michael Bloomberg
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. -- George R. R. Martin
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. -- Sean Young
I know people said I wasn't selling out in America, but that was entirely untrue. We sold out all over the world, and every night I looked out into the fans and those front rows that you're talking about, the tears, the honesty, the inability to not be completely overjoyed because they felt accepted. -- Lady Gaga
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. -- Shane Warne
She couldn't make it untrue. -- Maggie Stiefvater
STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. -- Ambrose Bierce
A thought, once uttered, is untrue -- Fyodor Tyutchev
Whatever thou sayest of God is untrue. -- Meister Eckhart
The true word leads; the untrue misleads. -- Franz Kafka
All religions are both harmful and untrue. -- Bertrand Russell
There is no overacting, only untrue acting. -- Stellan Skarsgard
Bush is good at stating the obviously untrue. -- Eleanor Clift
The untrue things don't deserve to be respected! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Lest men suspect your tale untrue, Keep probability in view. -- John Gay
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That economics is untrue which ignores or disregards moral values. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Respecting others' opinions doesn't mean being untrue to our own. -- P.M. Forni
Half the lies our opponents tell about us are untrue. -- Boyle Roche
This would have been less annoying had it been untrue. -- Robert Charles Wilson
If it was true today, it might be untrue tomorrow. -- Janet Morris
Honesty is such a lonely word. Everyone is so untrue... -- Billy Joel
Because no one sees the truth does not make it untrue. -- Mahatma Gandhi
For us there is but one crime: to be untrue to ourselves. -- Francis Parker Yockey
Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art. -- Oscar Wilde
A strange thing, words. Once they're said, it's hard to imagine they're untrue. -- Lauren DeStefano
A strange thing, words. Once they're said, it's hard to imagine they're untrue. -- Lauren DeStefano
It's simply untrue that religion provides the only framework for a universal morality. -- Sam Harris
I cannot bear that you / Should think me faithful, when I am untrue. -- Vita Sackville-West
The most common of all follies is to believe in the palpably untrue. -- H. L. Mencken
If you don't ask me questions, I can't give you an untrue answer. -- Oliver Goldsmith
No human should mislead another by promising them something they know to be untrue. -- Santosh Kalwar
I was not lying. I said things that later on seemed to be untrue. -- Richard M. Nixon
The child intuitively comprehends that although these stories are unreal, they are not untrue ... -- Bruno Bettelheim
People forget that unauthorized does not mean untrue and authorized does not mean authentic. -- Kitty Kelley
The planet is asleep and it's the fault of musicians who are untrue to themselves. -- Sun Ra
Every Left-wing hysteria of my lifetime has turned out to be untrue. Every single one -- Dennis Prager
Faith ... that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue. -- Bram Stoker
I am as firmly convinced that religions do harm as I am that they are untrue. -- Bertrand Russell
The birth, death, and resurrection of Jesus means that one day everything sad will come untrue.... -- J. R. R. Tolkien
Bush told me, he doesn't watch TV ... though it's untrue that he doesn't read the newspapers. -- Robert Draper
You have Donald Trump just making outright fabrications, accusing me of something that is absolutely untrue. -- Hillary Clinton
Anyone or anything that asks you to be untrue to yourself has already acted against you. -- Guy Finley
The repeated announcements that the Russian resistance was definitely broken have been proved to be untrue. -- Hjalmar Schacht
Lipstick on your collar said you were untrue. Bet your bottom dollar, you and I are through. -- Connie Francis
Some of my most neurotically fierce bitterness is the result of realizing how untrue people have become. -- Jack Kerouac
Madame Bovary and a flying carpet, they are both untrue in the same way. Somebody made them up. -- Salman Rushdie
If a statement is untrue, it is not the more respectable because it has been said in Latin. -- A. A. Milne
Look, how many stories have I broken? Hundreds. How many have proved to be untrue? There isn't one. -- Jude Law
Any thought of discomfort or stress is an alarm that lets you know you're believing an untrue thought -- Byron Katie
All statements about the hydrides of boron earlier than 1912, when Stock began to work upon them, are untrue. -- Alfred Stock
STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following has, however, not been successfully impeached. -- Ambrose Bierce
Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision. -- Quintilian
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It is indeed a million times better to appear untrue before the world than to be untrue to ourselves. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Anyone in any walk of life who is content with mediocrity is untrue to himself and to American tradition. -- George S. Patton
The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots. -- H. L. Mencken
We can't believe what we believe to be untrue, and we can't love what we believe to be unreal. -- Peter Kreeft
Anyone in any walk of life who is content with mediocrity is untrue to himself and to American tradition. -- George S. Patton
There's this illusion that homosexuals have sex and heterosexuals fall in love. That's completely untrue. Everybody wants to be loved. -- Boy George
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Well, that's history for you, folks. Unfair, untrue and for the most part written by folk who weren't even there. -- Joanne Harris
Well, that's history for you, folks. Unfair, untrue and for the most part written by folk who weren't even there. -- Joanne Harris
The giant wave of the science has no mercy; when this colossal wave comes, it will sweep away anything untrue! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
When someone writes a really nasty piece about me. I think they're generally untrue because I think I'm a nice person. -- Ian MacKaye
I think it is quite untrue that it is standard journalistic practice to name the interviewer when quoting from an interview. -- Fareed Zakaria
We may never become accustomed to untrue and unjust criticism of us but we ought not to be immobilized by it. -- Neal A. Maxwell
A lot of horrible, unfair, untrue things have been said about me. I can only say that the best revenge is success. -- Kate Moss
What is the professor's function? To pass on to numskulls a body of so-called knowledge that is fragmentary, unimportant, and largely untrue. -- H. L. Mencken
Should one continue to base one's life on a system of belief that--for all its occasional wisdom and frequent beauty--is demonstrably untrue? -- Charles Templeton
It is quite untrue that British people don't appreciate music. They may not understand it but they absolutely love the noise it makes. -- Thomas Beecham
It is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against it. -- Sigmund Freud
When men no longer have the least fear of saying something untrue, they very soon have no fear whatsoever of doing something unjust. -- Theodor Haecker
I thought of America as this crazy, happy, exciting place where everybody's rich and there's stuff everywhere. Compared to Pakistan, it's not untrue. -- Kumail Nanjiani
Whatever you have read I have said is almost certainly untrue, except if it is funny, in which case I definitely said it. -- Tallulah Bankhead
The true story is vicious and multiple and untrue after all. Why do you need it? Don't ever ask for the true story. -- Margaret Atwood
Hillary Clinton spent hundreds of millions of dollars on negative ads on me, many of which are absolutely untrue. They're untrue. And they're misrepresentations. -- Donald Trump
Despite all that good news, there's plenty of horror stories being told. All of them are untrue, but they're being told all over America, -- Harry Reid
Anything you can say, think, feel, trust or feel is untrue - is an illusion. The fact that there are these things is an illusion. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
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. -- Marianne Williamson
I believe that this whole question of some photography being true and some untrue is a non-question. Photography is not objective; it never was objective. -- Tibor Kalman
It's not fair. It's not fair," she cried, knowing it was a child's argument but not caring, because being childish did not make it untrue. -- Kristin Cashore
I wasn't allowed to use people's real names, such as my siblings and my children's father, but there's nothing fabricated or untrue in my autobiography. -- Kola Boof
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. -- Nancy Reagan
The things said most confidently by advanced persons to crowded audiences are generally those opposite to the fact; it is actually our truisms that are untrue. -- G.K. Chesterton
I'm always interested in debunking myths if they are untrue. But it's also important to identify myths and how they function, what value they may have. -- Neal Ascherson
People settle for so much less because they find their identities in the world's fickle and untrue opinions. God made you royal with His blood. Live. -- Lacey Mosley
Gandalf! I thought you were dead! But then I thought I was dead myself. Is everything sad going to come untrue? What's happened to the world? -- J. R. R. Tolkien
The dark in soul see in the universe their own shadow; the shattered spirit can only reflect external beauty in form as untrue and broken as itself. -- Thomas Binney
The publicity I have been getting, a good deal of which is untrue, and the rest of it ill considered, has done me more harm than good. -- George S. Patton
To the man-in-the-street, who, I'm sorry to say, is a keen observer of life. The word Intellectual suggests straight away. A man who's untrue to his wife. -- W. H. Auden
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. -- Dexter Gordon
When the human being says:'It is not true...'He may mean:'I don't know about it, so I think it is untrue.'Or:'I don't like it. -- Idries Shah
Myths are, in fact...neither primitive nor untrue. They are, rather, a kind of poetry that helps us make sense of the world and our place in it. -- Stephen H. Furrer
I have never experienced a stressful feeling that wasn't caused by attaching to an untrue thought. Behind every uncomfortable feeling, there's a thought that isn't true for us. -- Byron Katie
We are discovering today that several of the premises which are deeply ingrained in our way of life are simply untrue and become pathogenic when implemented with modern technology. -- Gregory Bateson
The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story. -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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