Yevgeny Yevtushenko Quotes

Lying is done with words and also with silence.

There's a degree of deception in silence.

Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.

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

What was the use of trying to expound a truth, if the majority preferred a lie?

I can't say why people lie; they just do. Everyone has their own reasons for not telling the truth.

Well, the truth is that a lot of people lie about their health, they lie about the finances, they lie about things at work, they lie about things.

Why would anyone lie? The truth is always more colorful.

When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.

A half truth is a whole lie.

There are various ways of keeping truth out of sight.

… he knew the lie of silence to be as evil as the lie of speech.

When I write that I've known about something for a long time, that's not a boast. That's a confession. It's me acknowledging that I have withheld something important from the public.

Most people who have told a lie think they got away with it … when in fact, they didn’t

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

The man who tells lies hides the truth, but the man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it.

Within every elaborate lie, a kernel of truth.

From what you didn’t say, lies that you did say.

Truth can remain silent. Lies must be spoken.

If you have something to say and say nothing, you are really telling a lie.

I would start drinking something terrible if I were in a situation where I was surrounded by lies or quiet or secrets. It's just not a real life.

I was trying to unravel the complicated trigonometry of the radical thought that silence could make up the greatest lie ever told.

So which is the lie? Hard or soft? Silence or time?

...a truth you don't understand is more dangerous than a lie.