Dorothy L. Sayers Quotes

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

If what is communicated is false, it can hardly be called communication.

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

Half-truths can be as deceptive as outright lies.

This much is true: you have been lied to.

A lie cannot live.

It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. A person who lies is thereby responding to the truth, and he is to that extent respectful of it.

A half truth is a whole lie.

A falsehood in which some truth is not stated at the beginning, cannot be maintained in the end.

A lie should be trampled on and extinguished wherever found.

Donald Trump treats the truth like a second home. He doesn't always live there.

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

Lying is the rule, not the exception.

Lies can destroy, but not create.

I realize how quickly lies compound. They cover like a coat of paint, one on top of the other, until you cannot remember what color you started with.

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.

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

Falsehood is a perennial spring.

When a man lies, he murders some part of the world.

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

I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.

People need good lies. There are too many bad ones.

The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.

White lies always introduce others of a darker complexion.

Lying can never save us from another lie.