Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it. The worst lies are those whose blade is false, but whose handle is true.

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

As anyone who's ever contracted it knows, lies are an infectious disease. They slip under the almond slivers of your fingernails and into your bloodstream.

The best lies were always mixed with truth.

Those who listen to lies lose the ability to hear the truth.

The destructive power of a lie is stronger than the truth.

My view is that when lies become mixed up with the truth, it's a very dangerous world.

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory.

Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn and ridicule.

At no time did I suggest that violence is justice, and I can't believe I even have to explain that. But the alternative is letting someone like Kayleigh McEnany misquote and manipulate what you say. McEnany, who repeatedly lies to the American people.

The lie, of course, is more interesting.

Bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are.

Half-truths can be as deceptive as outright lies.

Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.

Lies require commitment.

It was amazing how it worked: the tiniest bit of truth made credible the greatest lies.

As we all know, the most effective lies are the ones sprinkled with the most actual truths.

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

We lie. That's what we do. You're selling me a line of bullshit and you want me to sell you a line of bullshit back so you can write a major line of bullshit and be paid for it.

We obviously need the truth. We're living in a country of lies.

They are lying every day. They are lying always, and mainly they are lying to their public opinion

All propaganda is lies, even when one is telling the truth.

Your truths are worse than your lies.

There always comes a point beyond which lying becomes counterproductive. This point is reached when the audience to which the lies are addressed is forced to disregard altogether the distinguishing line between truth and falsehood in order to be able to survive.