Peter Latham Quotes

A lie can be half way round the world before the truth gets its boots on.

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

If truth is the first victim of war, then read on - I've got some great lies for you this month.

If enough things that are untrue are said about you, no one will know what really is true.

Errors, to be dangerous, must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation.

I want to clear up a few myths about myself. People have written that I was a kindergarten teacher and a former Miss Texas, and neither is true.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

That product of the human intelligence which we denominate the Campaign Lie, though it did not originate in the United States, has here attained a development unknown in other lands. It is the destiny of America to try all experiments and exhaust all follies. In the short space of seventy-seven years, we have exhausted the efficiency of falsehood uttered to keep a man out of office.

Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.

The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.

A lie can make it half way around the world before the truth has time to put its boots on.

Because I've heard so many stories that I don't know which one is the most popular. But I do know which is the least popular. The truth.

A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.

If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.

It's part of the general global hypnotism to accept lies as the new truth.

Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods.

I think we're lied to about a number of things.

The attempts to distort the truth and to hide the facts behind blanket accusations have been undertaken at all stages of the Ukrainian crisis.

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

Truth exists; only lies are invented.

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

Half a truth is often a great lie.