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