Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

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

Two half truths do not make a truth.

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

Half a truth is often a great lie.

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

A half truth is a whole lie.

This much is true: you have been lied to.

It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth as a whole lie.

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

That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright, But a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight.

A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.

The less time you spend with Truth, the easier it is to believe lies.

We are oftener deceived by being told some truth than no truth.

Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth.

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

A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.

Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth.

No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.

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

I always sensed instinctively from the earliest age that I was being lied to.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

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.

The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.