Alfred, Lord Tennyson Quotes
A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
See Ben Franklin for an earlier similar sentiment {465143}.
Alfred Tennyson, 1809-1892, British Poet, Member of the House of Lords, Quoted in James Wood, Dictionary of Quotations, 1899
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See {115604} for a similar sentiment from England.
He was asked why the War Office maintained three sets of figures: 1st Earl of Oxford
Armstrong observed that the notion was not original with him but with Edmund Burke. See {610721}.
One classic example was the fact that in 2012 about one third of Republicans believed that President Obama was a Muslim when he was a devout Christian. The infamous lie had 3 grains of truth: Obama’s father was a Muslim. his middle name was an Islamic name. and he had lived and gone to school as a young boy in Indonesia, the largest Islamic country.
- Born: August 6, 1809
- Died: October 6, 1892
- Nationality: English
- Profession: Poet
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson FRS was a British poet. He was the Poet Laureate during much of Queen Victoria's reign and remains one of the most popular British poets. In 1829, Tennyson was awarded the Chancellor's Gold Medal at Cambridge for one of his first pieces, "Timbuktu". He published his first solo collection of poems, Poems Chiefly Lyrical in 1830. "Claribel" and "Mariana", which remain some of Tennyson's most celebrated poems, were included in this volume. Although decried by some critics as overly sentimental, his verse soon proved popular and brought Tennyson to the attention of well-known writers of the day, including Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Tennyson's early poetry, with its medievalism and powerful visual imagery, was a major influence on the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
