Half Truth Is A Whole Lie Quotes

#1. A half truth is a whole lie

Amy Fellner Dominy

#2. A half-truth is a whole lie, my mother says.

Michelle Hodkin

#3. It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth as a whole lie ...

Austin O'Malley

#4. [Propaganda] does not have multiple shadings; it has a positive and a negative; love or hate, right or wrong, truth or lie, never half this way and half that way ...

Adolf Hitler

#5. What if half the things ever said / Turned out to be a lie / How will you know the truth / If you were given all the answers / And you stopped to wonder why ...

Prince

#6. Truth is a naked and open daylight, that does not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle-lights ... A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure

Francis Bacon

#7. There wasn't any more truth in over half of what any so-called orator said. If it wasn't a Deliberate Lie, why it was an Exaggerated Falsehood.

Will Rogers

#8. Half-truths are worth more than outright lies.

George R R Martin

#9. A lie that is half a truth is ever the hardest to fight.

Patricia Wentworth

#10. A lie can travel half way 'round the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes.

Alex Flinn

#11. A lie can make it half way around the world before the truth has time to put its boots on.

Mark Twain

#12. The most intangible, and therefore the worst, kind of a lie is a half truth. This is the peculiar device of a conscientious detractor.

Washington Allston

#13. Individual human beings are all tools, that the others use to help us all survive." "That's a lie." "No. It's just a half truth. You can worry about the other half after we win this war.

Orson Scott Card

#14. It is the truth, but not the whole truth; and half a truth is as bad as a lie.

Israel Shamir

#15. A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

#16. A little lie can travel half way 'round the world while Truth is still lacing up her boots.

Mark Twain

#17. Half-truths only added up to a whole lie.

Alexandra Bracken

#18. Good stories will tell you that facing the lie is the worst terror of all. And there is no talisman or magic sword that is half so potent a weapon as truth

Tad Williams

#19. Yeah, well all I can say is that a half truth is a still a while lie, ain't it ...

Terry McMillan

#20. A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#21. Struggling woman, as yet only half his victim, that the outward guise of purity was but a lie, and that, if truth were everywhere to be shown, a scarlet letter would blaze forth on many a bosom besides Hester Prynne's?

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#22. half truth can be more harmful than a full lie.

Deepak Goyal

#23. A half truth is much worse than a whole lie because it makes it even harder to tell the difference between the two.

Gene Ruyle

#24. Political truths are like colors in the rainbow, they may be true, except like the color purple which is created in the mind, however they are not THE WHOLE TRUTH, which is like LIGHT, colorless and yet all colors, seen and unseen.

Caesar J. B. Squitti

#25. A lie can only make a temporary sense. The truth is permanent and lasts forever.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#26. Half the truth is often a whole lie.

Frank Sonnenberg

#27. A half-truth does more mischief than a whole lie.

Ivan Panin

#28. I am happy with you." It was only a half-lie. In truth, being with him made me happier than anything. But it was a bittersweet happiness because from this moment on, it would be overshadowed with the wait and wonder of when and how our relationship would dissolve.

Alicia Kobishop

#29. Tell me there's a chance you could be wrong.
"If there were the slightest chance i could spare you from the pain, I would taken."
And its this-his sincerity-that finally snaps me in half. Because the truth is so unbearable I wish he'd spare me a lie.

Tahereh Mafi

#30. Half a truth is often a great lie

Benjamin Franklin

#31. Anyone who believes he has caught him in a fantastic lie is apt to find out that the fantastic story is the truth. And some unimportant statement, like just having bought an evening paper a half-hour ago, is the lie."

--On Orson Welles

Bernard Herrmann

#32. A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#33. A half-truth is even more dangerous than a lie. A lie, you can detect at some stage, but half a truth is sure to mislead you for long.

Anurag Shourie