Jean Giraudoux Quotes

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

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

The first casualty when war comes is truth.

Your case for war was a pack of lies.

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

How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.

Half a truth is often a great lie.

Food is as important to armies as ammunition—but more important than either is an unfailing supply of lies. You simply cannot murder your enemy in the most efficient manner if you know he is in every essential the same kind of a man as yourself.

No one expects a belligerent to tell the truth.

How do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists, then believe what they read.

Well, politics is war, and in war, truth is the first casualty.

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

In war, truth is often the first casualty.

there couldn't be war, unless lies were believed. War has to be nourished by lies.

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.

The whole world is absolutely brought up on lies. We are fed nothing but lies. It begins with lies and half our lives we live with lies.

It's often been observed that the first casualty of war is the truth. But that's a lie, too, in its way. The reality is that, for most wars to begin, the truth has to have been sacrificed a long time in advance.

Falsehood is a perennial spring.

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

The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.

It is well known that in war, the first casualty is truth - that during any war truth is forsaken for propaganda.

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

Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war.

Politicians are masters of the art of deception.