Clare Short Quotes

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

Errors, to be dangerous, must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation.

When you are writing something that is false and presenting it as a fact without confirming... I feel it's extremely wrong.

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.

Do you know, that is the root of the whole trouble - has been one of the roots at any rate - is people hearing things and then imagining some more and magnifying it and multiplying it.

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

A half truth is a whole lie.

A Falsehood is, in one sense, a dead thing; but too often it moves about, galvanized by self-will, and pushes the living out of their seats.

Falsehood, like the dry-rot, flourishes the more in proportion as air and light are excluded.

The chance that any given sentence is a lie, rather than a truth, I think, is fairly great. An intentional lie, a self-deception, a misconception - there are lots of categories of untruth, not one grab bag. And hotographs can reveal something to us, and they can also conceal things.

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

They've lied about everything.-about the fence, and the existence of Invalids, about a million other things besides. They told us the raids were carried out for our own protection. They told us the regulators were only interested in keeping the peace. They told us love was a disease. They told us it would kill us in the end. For the very first time I realize, that this, too, maight also be a lie.

Not one word of the following is true

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

The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so.

There are lies, damned lies and statistics.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods.

Everything that Eddie has said about me is the total opposite of what really happened. Eddie says I wanted to be a solo artist. No, Eddie wanted to be a solo artist.

Falsehood is a perennial spring.

A great lie is like a great fish on dry land; it may fret and fling and make a frightful bother, but it cannot hurt you. You have only to keep still, and it will die of itself.

When you take somebody's quote out of context, which happens all the time, nobody's ever going to go and do the research on their own and figure out that you got it wrong.

Headlines are so great in a sense that they can take a little bit from an article completely out of context and blow it into something it's not. Some people really only read headlines.

She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.