A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.
Alfred Tennyson
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A lie that is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
JOHN TAYLOR "THE WATER POET" A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER A beam in darkness: let it grow.
ALFRED TENNYSON The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception...
SAM HARRIS A partial truth, is half of a lie...
PHILIP T. M. A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies
ROLLO MAY A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies
CHARLES M. SCHULZ A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.
MARK TWAIN Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.
SOURCE UNKNOWN A half truth is a whole lie.
YIDDISH PROVERB A half-truth is a whole lie
YIDDISH PROVERB A half-truth is a whole lie.
YIDDISH PROVERB Half the truth is often a great lie.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE In the lie of truth lies the truth.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Ultimate truth is a cover story, underneath lies a LIE.
EPHDAN Half a truth is often a great lie.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN We don't know all the truth! We only know all the lies!
ANTHONY T.HINCKS We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that...
PABLO PICASSO We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth at least the truth that ...
PABLO PICASSO A half-truth is even more dangerous than a lie. A lie, you can detect at some stage, but half a trut...
ANURAG SHOURIE Never lie when the truth is more profitable.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
CHARLES SPURGEON Being present is being connected to All Things.
S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. Many lies lie between one truth.
TOBA BETA A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
THOMAS MANN Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me c...
LEO TOLSTOY It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth as a whole lie.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth as a whole lie.
UNKNOWN All's well that carries on well
AMIT ABRAHAM We all know that art is not the truth, art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.
PABLO PICASSO This is your fault. I'm going to kill you. And all the cake is gone.
You don't even care, do yo...
J.K. SIMMONS For people who say they hate being lied to, just start telling them nothing but the pure truth--abou...
SETH ADAM BROWN To lie a little is not possible: he who lies, lies the whole lie.
VICTOR HUGO I didn't care for humans at 16 and it hasn't gotten any better. They say one thing and do another. I...
BOBBY W. MILLER His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
TEKOA MANNING When living is too sweet and swanky, it may be very hard to appreciate the simplest things in life. ...
ERIK PEVERNAGIE Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
SUSAN SONTAG A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
MARK TWAIN Of another lie "You said that you will be with me...", "Everything what I want I will get..", but???...
DEYTH BANGER But tales like this must not be taken as truth. You must remind yourself that it is hard to tell whe...
ARLENE J. CHAI I sometimes believe his lies are the truth, but I have never mistaken his truth for a lie.
MEGAN WHALEN TURNER Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell t...
FRANZ KAFKA Fire failure by fighting falsehood. Forget the fears; Fix the future; Flee from fake friends. There ...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth ...
PABLO PICASSO Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide.
ICE CUBE That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright,/ But a lie which is part a truth ...
ALFRED TENNYSON That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright,/ But a lie which is part a truth ...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; a...
FRANZ KAFKA I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix.
DEYTH BANGER You have a choice," she told the class. "The whorish emptiness of lies or the straightlaced horrors ...
LORRIE MOORE ...and an edge that could cut a truth from a lie.
MARK LAWRENCE The truth about life and lie about life is not measured by others but by your intuition, which never...
SANTOSH KALWAR Hate is all a lie, there is no truth in hate.
KATHLEEN NORRIS Hate is all a lie, there is no truth in hate
KATHLEEN NORRIS Mother Superior jump the gun...
-The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun
LAUREN MYRACLE I'd rather hear an ugly truth, rather than an obscure lie.
ANA MONNAR Is a lie still a lie
if you say it pretty?
FORTESA LATIFI The truth hurts but a lie will eventually as well
RICHARD L TORRES Perception is the lie that we convince ourselves exists
MELISSA BRADLEY "If you're cup is half empty, you can blame it on others, or you can fill it up yourself.."
REZA FARIVAR Truth is a tendency.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER Cathy's lies were never innocent. Their purpose was to escape punishment, or work, or responsibility...
JOHN STEINBECK Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be ex...
GRAHAM GREENE Inside every truth are many lies & inside every lie are some truths.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Individual human beings are all tools, that the others use to help us all survive.” “That’s a ...
ORSON SCOTT CARD A half-truth is usually less than half of that.
BERNARD WILLIAMS A half-truth is usually less than half of that.
BERN WILLIAMS Success doesn’t come with ease. As a matter of fact, the darkest lie you may have been told is tha...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR History is replete with blunders written by sycophants.
TOMICHAN MATHEIKAL The truth and lies cannot be friend. They cannot stay to gather in you for life time.There is nothin...
DR. SHAILESH THAKER Life is a re-discovery.
BRIAN BLESSED If you think that life is a celebration full of party poppers and merry go rounds it's not it's a ga...
GARY F EVANS... Life Is a Misconception.
DEYTH BANGER Life is a desire!
DEYTH BANGER To trust someone you must firstly remember that it is a two way street that will go all the way if y...
GARY F EVANS... And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but
The truth in masquerade.
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) Truth is like a flower, if you tend to it and leave it in the sunshine, it will blossom into somethi...
ANGIE KARAN ...and an edge that could cut a truth from a lie.
MARK LAWRENCE, RED SISTER Everything is darkest," Xaphen mused, "before the dawn."
"That, my brother, is an axiom t...
AARON DEMBSKI-BOWDEN Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.
PABLO PICASSO The demon is a liar. He will lie to confuse us; but he will also mix lies with the truth to attack u...
WILLIAM PETER BLATTY The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing ...
EMINEM Is it possible to tell the truth in a society of lies? Or must you always, of necessity, become a li...
LAUREN OLIVER Well, the truth is that a lot of people lie about their health, they lie about the finances, they li...
LAURA SCHLESSINGER And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.
ALEXANDER POPE Expression is the truth, impression is a lie.
KRISHNA SAGAR Never lie & deceive to someone who trust you & never trust to one who always lies to you. Truth, wis...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Truth is a point of view, but authenticity can't be faked.
PETER GUBER Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.
PABLO PICASSO A good lie is one that is 99 per cent truth.
MUHAMMED HAIDER All power is within you; you can do anything and everything. Believe in that, do not believe that yo...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
WINSTON CHURCHILL The truth is, I'm not body confident.
TAMSIN EGERTON The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted.
VINCENT D'ONOFRIO Truth is the best defense.
WARD CHURCHILL
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To join the brimming river,
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In the language wherewith Spring
Letters cowslips on the hill.
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...
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Laid widow'd of the power in his eye
That bow'd the will.
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Their every parting was to die.
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One sabbath deep and wide.
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Believe me, than in half the creeds.
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And dew is cold upon the ground,
And the far-off stream ...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON Shall eagles not be eagles? wrens be wrens?
If all the world were falcons, what of that?
The ...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON Many a night I saw the Pleiads, rising thro' the mellow shade
Glitter like a swarm of fireflies ta...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON Well, well, be it so, thou strongest their of all,
For thou hast stolen my will, and made it thine...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON And oft I heard the tender dove
In firry woodlands making moan.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON Our echoes roll from soul to soul,
And grow for ever and for ever.
Blow, bugle, blow, set the ...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON And a million horrible bellowing echoes broke
From the red-ribb'd hollow behind the wood,
And ...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON I heard . . .
. . . the great echo flap
And buffet round the hills from bluff to bluff.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON Fancy light from Fancy caught.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the vision of the world, and all the w...
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON And out of darkness came the hands
That reach thro' nature, moulding men.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON We keep the day. With festal cheer,
With books and music, surely we
Will drink to him, whate'...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks:
The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep
...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON