Top 17 False Hope Quotes

False hopes are more dangerous than fears.

False hopes are more dangerous than fears.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Life, False Hope, Dangerous

J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle-earth”, p.49, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

False hope really makes you cynical.

Bill Maher

Cynical, False Hope

False hope is nicer than no hope at all.

Edgar Allan Poe

Catchy, False Hope, No Hope

There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hope soon to be swept away.

Winston Churchill

Leadership, Mistake, False Hope

Winston Churchill (1986). “The Hinge of Fate”, p.54, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Harsh reality is always better than false hope.

Julian Fellowes

Reality, False Hope, Harsh

"Fictional character: Dr. Clarkson". "Downton Abbey (TV Series) Episode #5.6", www.imdb.com. 2014.

Closure is just as delusive-it is the false hope that we can deaden our living grief.

Stephen Grosz

Grief, Closure, False Hope

Stephen Grosz (2014). “The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves”, p.210, W. W. Norton & Company

False hope is better than no hope at all.

Lois Greiman

Hope, False Hope, No Hope

Canadians want to see real hope restored, not false hopes raised.

Kim Campbell

Real, Want, False Hope

And as far as false hope, there is no such thing. There is only hope or the absence of hope - nothing else.

Patti Davis

Absence, False Hope

False hope is sometimes much worse and sometimes much better than no hope.

Mike Caro

Sometimes, False Hope, No Hope

Wishes are false. Hope is true. Hope makes its own magic.

Laini Taylor

Magic, Wish, False Hope

Laini Taylor (2011). “Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.94, Hachette UK

It is wisdom to recognize necessity when all other courses have been weighed, though as folly it may appear to those who cling to false hope.

J. R. R. Tolkien

May, False Hope, Middle Earth

J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.194, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

What Rizzoli thought, staring at her own image, was that she hated Elizabeth Hurley for giving women false hope. The brutal truth was, there are some women who will never be beautiful, and Rizzoli was one of them.

Tess Gerritsen

Beautiful, Giving, False Hope

Tess Gerritsen (2015). “The Rizzoli & Isles Series 11-Book Bundle: The Surgeon, The Apprentice, The Sinner, Body Double, Vanish, The Mephisto Club, The Keepsake, Ice Cold, The Silent Girl, Last to Die, Die Again”, p.140, Ballantine Books