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A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it.
View quotes by Claude Rains

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

View quotes by Alfred Lord Tennyson

What does the truth matter? Haven't we mothers all given our sons a taste for lies, lies which from the cradle upwards lull them, reassure them, send them to sleep: lies as soft and warm as a breast!
View quotes by Georges Bernanos

Our grandly business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand
View quotes by Thomas Carlyle

It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.
View quotes by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand
View quotes by Thomas Carlyle

For us to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other and especially to ourselves. The lies are necessary because, without them, many deplorable acts would become impossibilities.
View quotes by Derrick Jensen

Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies.
View quotes by Jim Morrison

There are lies damn lies and statistics.
View quotes by Benjamin Disraeli

Stories now, to suit a public taste, must be half epigram, half pleasant vice
View quotes by James Russell Lowell

It is impossible to obtain a conviction for sodomy from an English jury. Half of them don't believe that it can physically be done, and the other half are doing it.
View quotes by Winston Churchill

I always wanted to be somebody. If I made it, it's half because I was game enough to take a lot of punishment along the way and half because there were a lot of people who cared enough to help me.
View quotes by Althea Gibson

I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free
View quotes by Abraham Lincoln

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
View quotes by E B White

The one who wins the top half will win the tournament [on US Open 2007, Henin won from the top half]
View quotes by Marion Bartoli

Half the people in Hollywood are dying to be discovered and the other half are afraid they will be.
View quotes by Lionel Barrymore

There's a subterranean impetus towards pornography so powerful that half the business world is juiced by the sort of half sex that one finds in advertisements.
View quotes by Norman Mailer

It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.
View quotes by Neil Gaiman

We knew at half-time we were only half-way there [on drawing 0-0 with Germany!]
View quotes by Simon Davies

I won't be able to stop the drinking just like that but I've hopefully cut it in half and if you cut what I drink in half that is a hell of a lot.
View quotes by Andy Fordham



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