Saadi Quotes

A falsehood resulting in conciliation is better than a truth producing trouble

Those who seek peace above all else, they say, will always deceive to keep the water calm.

I tried to be diplomatic, but mostly I just lied a lot.

He spent his whole life in plastering together the true and the false and therefrom extracting the plausible.

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speak the truth, and they never believe me.

The sad truth is that the opposite of 'war' is not 'peace'.

Dealing with a government with whom mendacity is a science is an extremely difficult and delicate matter.

Half-truths are worth more than outright lies.

Half-truths can be as deceptive as outright lies.

How do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists, then believe what they read.

There wasn't any more truth in over half of what any so-called orator said. If it wasn't a Deliberate Lie, why it was an Exaggerated Falsehood.

Tell the truth or trump-but get the trick.

If wars can be started by lies, they can be stopped by truth.

We assume that all statements must be mild inversions of the truth, because it's too weird to imagine people who aren't casually lying, pretty much all the time.

With union grounded on falsehood and ordering us to speak and act lies, we will not have anything to do. Peace? A brutal lethargy is peaceable; the noisome is peaceable. We hope for a living peace, not a dead one!

Lies are usually attempts to make everything simpler - for the liar - than it really is, or ought to be.

The reason why most people are frustrated is because a lie cannot be turned into a truth.

The bullshitter is neither on the side of the true or the side of the false. His eye is not on the facts at all. He does not reject the authority of the truth, as the liar does, and oppose himself to it. He pays no attention to it at all. By virtue of this, bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are.

You can create many lies from Truth, but you cannot create any truths from lies.

You can fool people some of the time, but you can't fool them all of the time.

A lie has no legs, and cannot stand; but it has wings, and can fly far and wide.

Lies will flow from my lips, but there may perhaps be some truth mixed up with them.

Detente - isn't that what a farmer has with his turkey - until Thanksgiving?

It is a principle of diplomacy that one must know something of the truth in order to lie convincingly.

Any statement beginning with the words 'In truth' is almost always a lie.