Plautus Quotes

The media dresses things up. There's a lot of inaccuracy.

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

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

Half a truth is often a great lie.

The thing I hate about writers is they want to state their case and they use false information.

I think that people believe in lies and they repeat the lies so many times that the people start to believe, 'ah, Demian is not fighting for the title because he doesn't sell.'

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

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

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

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

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.

The right can distort anything it wants.

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.

You may have read that I went to M.I.T. In 1982 I filled out a Who's Who survey with joking responses, and they never bothered to check the facts.

In politics, not all lies are all lies. And not all truths are complete.

An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.

And also, it's sort of my job to make you believe things about him that aren't true about me.

Some people believe everything they see on TV. People, it's called tel-lie-vision!

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

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Everything about the left is perception, manipulation, and lies. Everything. Everything is 'Wag the Dog.' Everything is a structured deception.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies.

Of all newspaper presses, I never heard anyone deny that the American is the worst.... [N]othing is easier than to make the people know only one side of a question; few things are easier than to keep them altogether from the knowledge of any particular affair; and, worse than all, on them [the American people] may easily be practiced the discovery that lies may work their intended effect, before the truth can overtake them. It is hard to tell which is worse; the wide diffusion of things that are not true or the suppression of things that are.