Mark Twain Quotes

There are lies, damned lies and statistics.

Politicians learn to turn the truth into something that they want the truth to be.

Figures won’t lie but liars will figure.

Computers don't lie, but liars can compute.

The worst thing you can be is a liar. . . . Okay, fine, yes, the worst thing you can be is a Nazi, but then number two is liar. Nazi one, liar two.

There are three kinds of liars: liars, damned liars, and statisticians

Why waste time trying to discover the truth, when you can so easily create it?

If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.

I think all politicians lie.

I think politicians know how to misrepresent data in order to support a political agenda. Politicians and the people that work for them - I should say - are expert at that.

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

You can read everybody. It's not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it's false.

Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn and ridicule.

Advertising is legalized lying.

Whoever attacks the popular falsehoods of his time will find that a lie defends itself by telling other lies. Nothing is so prolific, nothing can so multiply itself, nothing can lay and hatch as many eggs, as a good, healthy, lie.

One to mislead the public, another to mislead the Cabinet, and the third to mislead itself.

Lying is one of the techniques of politicians .... They are economical with the truth.

We must be ready to employ trickery, deceit, law-breaking, withholding and concealing truth. We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, scorn, and the like, toward those who disagree with us.

People say that it’s easy to lie with statistics. Well it’s a lot easier to lie without them.

Your case for war was a pack of lies.

[Allen Dulles] was not above misleading Congress or his colleagues or even his commander in chief.

There is a lot of spinning and a lot of lying in our times—in politics, in government, in sports and everywhere. It’s gotten to the point where … you no longer believe the first version of anything. It wasn’t always that way. I guess it started for me with Vietnam, when the establishment felt it had to lie to justify a policy that as it turned out was never going to work.

Do not be deceived by the way men of bad faith misuse words and names…. Beware of those who use words to mean their opposites. At the same time have pity on them, for usually this trick is their only stock in trade.

Donald Trump treats the truth like a second home. He doesn't always live there.

I don't know what else to do other than tell people what I think to be untruths.