Charlotte Lennox Quotes

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

Reality is easy. It's deception that's the hard work.

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

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.

Half-truths are worth more than outright lies.

Half-truths can be as deceptive as outright lies.

It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth as a whole lie.

You didn't tell a lie, you just left a big hole in the truth.

You know there's no such thing as a complete lie. There's always some truth in there.

That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright, But a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight.

Plain lies are dangerous.

We are oftener deceived by being told some truth than no truth.

But maybe half a lie is worse than a real lie.

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

Truth is often the favorite tool of those who deceive.

I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.

A lie cannot live.

In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged up only as a final resort when the alternative options of deception, threat and bribery have all been exhausted.

No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.

I've been fooling the public for years and I'm really good at it.

I always sensed instinctively from the earliest age that I was being lied to.

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

You can read everybody. It's not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it's false.

It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.