Ally Carter Quotes

For me, the facts in anything are always secondary. You don't lie convincingly with the truth. You lie convincingly with being a good liar.

A touch of truth makes a lie worth believing.

If you want to convince somebody, make up a quote and attribute it to some renowned authority …. People are incredibly gullible.

A falsehood, to have its full and lasting effect, must contain a fraction of a grain of truth.

If you have the ability to convince somebody of something that you don't necessarily think is the case, it's a valuable asset. Not that I'm, like, a pathological liar, but we spend most of the day not fully being honest, you know?

A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.

A big lie is more plausible than truth.

When both parties are lying and they both know the other party's lying, it comes powerful close to being the same thing as telling the truth.

What convinces is not necessarily true-it is merely convincing: a note for asses.

the best lie is wrapped around a core of truth

Being a practiced liar doesn't mean you have a powerful imagination. Many good liars have no imagination at all; it's that which gives their lies such wide-eyed conviction.

The size of the lie is a definite factor in causing it to be believed.

No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.

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

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

I've always operated under the notion that audiences don't always know when they're being lied to, but that they always know when they're being told the truth.

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.

Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible. To be credible, it must be true.

You cannot 'rationalize' what is not rational to begin with - as if lying were called 'truthization.' There is no way to obtain more truth for a proposition by bribery, flattery, or the most passionate argument - you can make more people believe the proposition, but you cannot make it more true.

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory.

In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

Anybody can make something up and have it sound believable. The hard part is remembering all the lies you've told, and all the people you've told them to, and then living the lies that have become your life.

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

I've become very conscious of how easy it is for people to lie.