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Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

False

False as a man with a black head and a red beard.
—Anonymous

False as Dick’s hatband.
—Anonymous

False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.
—Robert Burton

False as suborn’d perjurers.
—Samuel Butler

False as the father of lies.
—Gilbert K. Chesterton

False and fair-foliaged as the manchineel.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge

False as a bulletin.
—Napoleon

False as the adulterate promises of favorites in power when poor men court them.
—Thomas Otway

False as the wind, the waters, and the weather.
—Thomas Otway

False as God is true.
—Thomas Paine

False eloquence, like the prismatic glass,
Its gaudy colors spread on ev’ry place.
—Alexander Pope

As false as Waghorn, and he was nineteen times falser than the deil.
—Scottish Proverb

False as an obituary.
—Edgar Saltus

False as dice.
—William Shakespeare

False as dicers’ oaths.
—William Shakespeare

False as hell.
—William Shakespeare

False
As stairs of sand.
—William Shakespeare

False as water.
—William Shakespeare

False … as wolf to heifer’s calf.
—William Shakespeare

False as the fowler’s artful snare.
—Tobias Smollett

False and foul as fear.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne