Deliberate Quote by Will Rogers

“The story may have been exaggerated, yet it must have been something like the truth.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult. Even with no motive to be false, it is very hard to say the exact truth.

— George Eliot

“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

“Once you take to the habit of deception, every new lie comes that much easier. Though to me it wasn't so much lies as…

— Caroline Kettlewell

The continued utterance of a lie does not make it true, but it does convince many that it is, particularly if you can squelch…

— Shapley R Hunter

Anything more than the truth would have seemed too weak.

— Robert Frost

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

— Marie Corelli

“A lie means saying something with a deliberate intent to deceive, and what I did is more like embellish the truth.”

— Debbie Mason

Partial truth or Half-truth are often more insidious than total falsehoods.

— Anonymous

Falsehood is a critical element in fiction. Part of the thrill of being told a story is the chance of being hoodwinked. . .The…

— John Cheever

Some truths did not bear saying, and some lies were necessary.

— Anonymous

There was a distinction between lying and telling half-truths, but it was a very narrow one.

— Alexander McCall Smith