Samuel Johnson Quotes

Welcome to the world of bullshit, my dear. You have arrived.

The reason why most people are frustrated is because a lie cannot be turned into a truth.

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

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

Glorify a lie, legalize a lie, arm and equip a lie, consecrate a lie with solemn forms and awful penalties, and after all it is nothing but a lie. It rots a land and corrupts a people like any other lie, and by and by the white light of God's truth shines clear through it, and shows it to be a lie.

There wasn't any more truth in over half of what any so-called orator said. If it wasn't a Deliberate Lie, why it was an Exaggerated Falsehood.

I have a certain experience of the way people tell lies.

It's lies. It's all lies. Some of them are just prettier than others, that's all. People see what they think is there.

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 half-truth masquerading as the whole truth becomes a complete untruth.

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

We assume that all statements must be mild inversions of the truth, because it's too weird to imagine people who aren't casually lying, pretty much all the time.

Truth does not do as much good in the world as its imitations do harm.

The bullshitter is neither on the side of the true or the side of the false. His eye is not on the facts at all. 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.

Truth is often the favorite tool of those who deceive.

Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth.

A lie cannot live.

Men lie the most. Men lie all the time.

Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but it's quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves.

There are two ways of lying. One, not telling the truth and the other, making up statistics.

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

The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.

A blunt statement can be as false as any other.

The certainty with which Cameron informed MPs and Shadow ministers of the specifics of a Labour offer that never actually existed suggests a degree of flexibility with the truth.

A lie never lives to be old.