Jay Asher Quotes

The great enemy of the truth is often not the lie ... but the myth.

It takes as much time and trouble to pull down a falsehood as to build up a truth.

A lie can make it half way around the world before the truth has time to put its boots on.

If enough things that are untrue are said about you, no one will know what really is true.

People love to yammer on about things that aren't real.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

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

A lie can be half way round the world before the truth gets its boots on.

Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.

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

Despite all that good news, there's plenty of horror stories being told. All of them are untrue, but they're being told all over America.

A few men are sufficient to broach falsehoods, which are afterwards innocently diffused by successive relaters.

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

Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.

There are always going to be ridiculous rumours.

I think we're lied to about a number of things.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

People need good lies. There are too many bad ones.

If truth is the first victim of war, then read on - I've got some great lies for you this month.

An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.

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.

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

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

Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.

Half a truth is often a great lie.