Fabrication Quotes

If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.

Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

A half truth is a whole lie.

It is often necessary to trick people into confessing.

In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.

The great enemy of the truth is often not the lie ... but the myth.

The wronger a conspiracy is, the better it is.

Figures won’t lie but liars will figure.

The size of the lie is a definite factor in causing it to be believed, for the vast masses of a nation are in the depths of their hearts more easily deceived than they are intentionally bad.

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

Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods.

I think that people believe in lies and they repeat the lies so many times that the people start to believe, 'ah, Demian is not fighting for the title because he doesn't sell.'

Whoever attacks the popular falsehoods of his time will find that a lie defends itself by telling other lies. Nothing is so prolific, nothing can so multiply itself, nothing can lay and hatch as many eggs, as a good, healthy, lie.

How easy is it to make people believe a lie, and hard it is to undo that work again!

Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe.

What’s the difference between my fabricating reports and your letting your agents do it? At least mine make sense.

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

…the statements to the World and News consist simply of a string of infamous libels.

The English follow the principle that when one lies, one should lie big, and stick to it. They keep up their lies, even at the risk of looking ridiculous.

The most dangerous untruths are truths moderately distorted.