Mark Twain Quotes

If you want to convince somebody, make up a quote and attribute it to some renowned authority …. People are incredibly gullible.

In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

In politics where immediate success is attained by saying what people can be made to believe, rather than what is demonstrably true, accent is generally placed on the desirable rather than on the possible.

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.

They've lied about everything.-about the fence, and the existence of Invalids, about a million other things besides. They told us the raids were carried out for our own protection. They told us the regulators were only interested in keeping the peace. They told us love was a disease. They told us it would kill us in the end. For the very first time I realize, that this, too, maight also be a lie.

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.

My dad being a salesman taught me you can sell anybody anything if you've got the ability to believe.

I did a lot of fast talking as a youth; I was pretty good at it. I was never talked into it - I was always the one doing the talking.

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

I never said half the things I said.

Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible. To be credible, it must be true.

I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version.

Politicians like to tell people what they want to hear - and what they want to hear is what won't happen.

It is true the orator may make a myriad replica of his own passion out of those who listen to him. But that does not prove he is right or they are not fools.

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

If you can't convince them, confuse them.

Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.

Half a truth is often a great lie.

In politics, not all lies are all lies. And not all truths are complete.

I perpetuate rumors that I've dated people that I've never actually dated.

Politicians are masters of the art of deception.

Advertising is legalized lying.

One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats - and one always secretes too much jelly.

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.