Robert Temple Armstrong Quotes

It is perhaps being economical with the truth.

There are two ways of lying. One, not telling the truth and the other, making up statistics.

People can lie in letters, but they tend not to. They certainly lie in memoirs.

The average person tells a few white lies.

A half truth is a whole lie.

I didn't lie. I only didn't elaborate on every detail of the truth.

That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude.

Everyone has lied for some reason or the other.

There's a difference between a cheap lie and a beautiful lie.

Lying is done with words and also with silence.

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.

I know how easy it is for one to stay well within moral, ethical, and legal bounds through the skillful use of words - and to thereby spin, sidestep, circumvent, or bend a truth completely out of shape. To that extent, we are all liars on numerous occasions.

I can't say why people lie; they just do. Everyone has their own reasons for not telling the truth.

A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.

Lying is the most simple form of self-defence.

White lies always introduce others of a darker complexion.

Lying can never save us from another lie.

The certainty with which Cameron informed MPs and Shadow ministers of the specifics of a Labour offer that never actually existed suggests a degree of flexibility with the truth.

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

Nobody can honestly say that they never lie.

Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.

It's been unsettling to discover that every form of narrative, even one that purports to tell the truth, is a kind of lying.

I'm more of an exaggerator than a liar.

Half a truth is often a great lie.

I'm a really bad liar.