Bernard Williams Quotes

A half truth is a whole lie.

Half a truth is often a great lie.

A half-truth masquerading as the whole truth becomes a complete untruth.

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

I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version.

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

Usually we are saying only part of the truth.

The trouble with half-truths is you never know which half you've got.

Everyone has lied for some reason or the other.

Half-truths can be as deceptive as outright lies.

Two half truths do not make a truth.

It's a terrible thing to speak well and be wrong.

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.

There are two ways of lying. One, not telling the truth and the other, making up statistics.

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.

A blunt statement can be as false as any other.

If what is communicated is false, it can hardly be called communication.

It is perhaps being economical with the truth.

People tend to say a lot of things that are not true.

The little bit of truth contained in many a lie is what makes them so terrible.

Half-truths are worth more than outright lies.

Gossip lies nine times and tells a half truth the tenth.

This much is true: you have been lied to.

If you take part of the truth, and try to make that part of the truth, all of the truth, then that part of the truth becomes an untruth.

The man who tells lies hides the truth, but the man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it.