Half Quote by Lillian Hellman Download Open image “But maybe half a lie is worse than a real lie.” — Lillian Hellman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Half Lying Real
The most intangible, and therefore the worst, kind of a lie is a half truth. This is the peculiar device of a conscientious detractor. — Washington Allston Copy Share Image
“A half truth is much worse than a whole lie because it makes it even harder to tell the difference between the two.” — Gene Ruyle Copy Share Image
A half truth is the worst of all lies,because it can be defended in partiality. — Solon Copy Share Image
There are worse things than a lie and there are better things than the truth! — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field. — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty. — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
I don't think many writers like their best-known piece of work, particularly when it was written a long time ago. — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
I live in a room and I go to work and I play a game called getting through the day while you wait for… — LILLIAN HELLMAN Copy Share Image
There are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. And other people… — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped. — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
Decision by democratic majority vote is a fine form of government, but it's a stinking way to create. — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
Haven't you lived in the South long enough to know that nothing is ever anybody's fault? — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
We will not think noble because we are not noble. We will not live in beautiful harmony because there is no such thing in… — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
It was an unspoken pleasure, that having come together so many years, ruined so much and repaired a little, we had endured. — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in… — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
When you listen to someone improvise, the notes that are played are only half the story. — Hubert Laws Copy Share Image
A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Half the misery of human life might be extinguished if men would alleviate the general curse they lie under by mutual offices of compassion,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I genuinely did not expect more than half our nation to choose to walk away from our long-term allies into the arms of our… — Brian Reade Copy Share Image
Being blonde, for me, means never having to say: 'I'll have the honey-striped half-head of highlights for £200,' to a bored colourist in a… — Rachel Johnson Copy Share Image
In the movie, the stars above the ship bear no correspondence to any constellations in a real sky. Worse yet, while the heroine bobs...… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
For the glory born of Goodness Never dies, And its flag is not half-masted In the skies. — Bret Harte Copy Share Image
But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I with borrow'd silver shine, What you see is none of mine. First I show you but a quarter, Like the bow that guards… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
If you want to change something by Tuesday, theater is no good. Journalism is what does that. But, if you want to just alter… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I spend a lot of time loathing the sentences that I put down on the page. Once I'm past that phase, it doesn't really… — Kelly Link Copy Share Image
I usually write from the rhythm section...If a drummer got a funky beat on some things - like a half-shuffle or a shuffle or… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
