Jacqueline Carey Quotes

The folks who know the truth aren't talking.... The ones who don't have a clue, you can't shut them up!

It's a terrible thing to speak well and be wrong.

When we tell little white lies, we become progressively color-blind. It is better to remain silent than to mislead.

We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.

By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.

If you think you might have secret information listening to me, you're lost.

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

If you understand everything, you must be misinformed.

Frank and explicit – that is the right line to take when you want to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.

The trouble with half-truths is you never know which half you've got.

Ambiguity is a big part of this post-truth world we're living in.

Often the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.

Just because you didn't speak the facts out loud didn't erase their existence. Silence was just a quieter way to lie.

Stupidity is active in every direction, and can dress up in all the clothes of truth. Truth, on the other hand, has for every occasion only one dress and one path, and is always at a disadvantage.

The signal is the truth. The noise is what distracts us from the truth.

Elvis is English, and climbs the hills. Can't tell the bullshit from the lies.

nothing is more like truth than a lie, don't you find?

I do know that the slickest way to lie is to tell the right amount of truth--then shut up.

Plain lies are dangerous.

Lord Polonius: What do you read, my lord? Hamlet: Words, words, words. Lord Polonius: What is the matter, my lord? Hamlet: Between who? Lord Polonius: I mean, the matter that you read, my lord.

A speech is something you say so as to distract attention from what you do not say.

There are many justifications of silence; there can be none of insincerity.

There are some as are what they are. And there are some as aren't what they seem to be. And there are some as only seem to be what they seem to be.

When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.