“There has never been nationhood without falsehood.”
“In a world that has REALLY been turned on its head, truth is a moment of falsehood. ”
“Know that a rose without thorns has never been plucked”
“Falsehood is never in words; it is in things.”
“The radio is at the root of the evil, their rule is: No silence, ever. When anything happens, the commentator has to speak without a moment's pause for gathering wisdom. Falsehood and inanity are preferable to silence.”
“Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.”