Christiane Amanpour Quotes

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

Lies will flow from my lips, but there may perhaps be some truth mixed up with them.

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.

A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it.

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

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

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.

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

Lies can destroy, but not create.

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

Half-truths can be as deceptive as outright lies.

A lie has no legs, and cannot stand; but it has wings, and can fly far and wide.

Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.

Gossip lies nine times and tells a half truth the tenth.

It was amazing how it worked: the tiniest bit of truth made credible the greatest lies.

As anyone who's ever contracted it knows, lies are an infectious disease. They slip under the almond slivers of your fingernails and into your bloodstream.

The best lies were always mixed with truth.

This much is true: you have been lied to.

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

Those who listen to lies lose the ability to hear the 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.

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

Plain lies are dangerous.

You've learned that every good lie is threaded with truth and every accepted truth leaks lies.