Virginia Woolf Quotes

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

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.

People tend to say a lot of things that are not true.

Have you weaned yourself of your off-putting proclivity for not telling the truth/

Lies can destroy, but not create.

Bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are.

A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it. The worst lies are those whose blade is false, but whose handle is true.

The best lies were always mixed with truth.

The chance that any given sentence is a lie, rather than a truth, I think, is fairly great. An intentional lie, a self-deception, a misconception - there are lots of categories of untruth, not one grab bag. And hotographs can reveal something to us, and they can also conceal things.

My view is that when lies become mixed up with the truth, it's a very dangerous world.

Because the truth sometimes hurts," I said. Yeah," he said. "So do lies, though.

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

You know what lies are for.

Lying does exist in crazy forms.

White lies always introduce others of a darker complexion.

People lie, and they always are very very creative in finding new ways to lie.

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

A half truth is a whole lie.

Liars sometimes tell the truth; they don’t tell lies all the time.

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

Don't pee on my leg and tell me it's raining.

Someone who lies and someone who tells the truth are playing on opposite sides, so to speak, in the same game. Each responds to the facts as he understands them, although the response of the one is guided by the authority of the truth, while the response of the other defies that authority and refuses to meet its demands. The bullshitter ignores these demands altogether. He does not reject the authority of the truth, as the liar does, and oppose himself to it. He pays no attention to it at all. By virtue of this, bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are.

Half-truths are worth more than outright lies.

Truth is no man's slave - but lies - what magnificent servants they make.

Lies, lies are the place where darkness grows.