I've been working hard at assuming Court polish, but the more I learn about what really goes on behind the pretty voices and waving fans and graceful bows, the more I comprehend that what is really said matters little, so long as the manner in which it is said pleases. I understand it, but I don't like it. Were I truly influential, then I would halt this foolishness that decrees that in Court one cannot be sick; that to admit you are sick is really to admit to political or social or romantic defeat; that to admit to any emotions usually means one really feels the opposite. It is a terrible kind of falsehood that people can only claim feelings as a kind of social weapon.
Sherwood SmithStichwörter: truth falsehood court social-weapons
Well...letting the cat out of the bag is a lot easier than putting it in.
Charles MartinStichwörter: lies falsehood pretending
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[Women] complain about many clerks who attribute all sorts of faults to them and who compose works about them in rhyme, prose, and verse, criticizing their conduct in a variety of different ways. They then give these works as elementary textbooks to their young pupils at the beginning of their schooling, to provide them with exempla and received wisdom, so that they will remember this teaching when they come of age ... They accuse [women] of many ... serious vice[s] and are very critical of them, finding no excuse for them whatsoever.
This is the way clerks behave day and night, composing their verse now in French, now in Latin. And they base their opinions on goodness only knows which books, which are more mendacious than a drunk. Ovid, in a book he wrote called Cures for Love, says many evil things about women, and I think he was wrong to do this. He accuses them of gross immorality, of filthy, vile, and wicked behaviour. (I disagree with him that they have such vices and promise to champion them in the fight against anyone who would like to throw down the gauntlet ...) Thus, clerks have studied this book since their early childhood as their grammar primer and then teach it to others so that no man will undertake to love a woman.
Stichwörter: perception books love empowerment gender men women morality prejudice misogyny hypocrisy teaching instruction falsehood slander stereotypes double-standards clichés social-norms misrepresentation received-opinion
Those who plead their cause in the absence of an opponent can invent to their heart's content, can pontificate without taking into account the opposite point of view and keep the best arguments for themselves, for aggressors are always quick to attack those who have no means of defence.
Christine de PizanStichwörter: strength injustice weakness hypocrisy inequality argument falsehood deceit double-standards unfairness misrepresentation defenselessness one-sidedness
When one with honeyed words but evil mind
Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.
Stichwörter: deception power evil tyranny elections government falsehood deceit administration seduction false-promises
To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
AristophanesStichwörter: politics hypocrisy elections government popularity falsehood promises
The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth.
Georg Christoph LichtenbergStichwörter: truth lies falsehood distortion
As individuals die every moment, how insensitive and fabricated a love it is to set aside a day from selfish routine in prideful, patriotic commemoration of tragedy. Just as God is provoked by those who tithe simply because they feel that they must tithe, I am provoked by those who commemorate simply because they feel that they must commemorate.
Criss JamiStichwörter: day love society god nationalism patriotism death patriotic tragedy vanity memory selfishness memories pride culture falsehood commemoration individual honest universal routine popular-culture pop-culture holiday popular patriot lovelessness pop memorial insensitivity bandwagon commemorate fabrication insincere memorial-day tithe
Like crying wolf, if you keep looking for sympathy as a justification for your actions, you will someday be left standing alone when you really need help.
Criss JamiStichwörter: loneliness sympathy crying responsibility actions excuses justification false falsehood wolves complaining wolf whining alarm crying-wolf false-alarm
The only thing more frustrating than slanderers is those foolish enough to listen to them.
Criss JamiStichwörter: lies jealousy frustration falsehood slander fool deceit listen envy jealous troublesome annoying haters
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