Tom Stoppard Quotes

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

Please don't believe everything you hear about me, regardless of how true it may be.

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

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

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.

Lies are sufficient to breed opinion and opinion brings on substance.

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

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

People make up things. If you ask the guys in this clubhouse I played with, I've never been a troublemaker. I don't know where that came from.

When there are falsehoods and ludicrous statements made at briefings, we've got to call that out.

If you put negative things out about anyone every day, they're gonna start believing it, sorta like propaganda if you think about it.

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.'

Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.

Now that he has disavowed as outright lies many of the stories he told himself, it's hard to know what to make of those who still insist that David Brock had it right the first time.

The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in the heart.

It's part of the general global hypnotism to accept lies as the new truth.

You just keep feeding hogwash to people, and pretty soon they'll eat it.

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

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

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.

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

I think the measure of your success to a certain extent will be the amount of things written about you that aren't true.

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

Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.