Jeffrey Eugenides Quotes

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

A big lie is more plausible than truth.

A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it. The worst lies are those whose blade is false, but whose handle is true.

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

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

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

Whoever attacks the popular falsehoods of his time will find that a lie defends itself by telling other lies. Nothing is so prolific, nothing can so multiply itself, nothing can lay and hatch as many eggs, as a good, healthy, lie.

If people tell an untruth long enough and loud enough, they begin to believe it themselves.

When it comes to snowing people, one effective technique is to get a whole bunch of verifiable facts right and then add one or two that are untrue.

Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.

People are more likely to believe a big lie than a small one.

Bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are.

As anyone who's ever contracted it knows, lies are an infectious disease. They slip under the almond slivers of your fingernails and into your bloodstream.

As we all know, the most effective lies are the ones sprinkled with the most actual truths.

Those who listen to lies lose the ability to hear the truth.

A touch of truth makes a lie worth believing.

My view is that when lies become mixed up with the truth, it's a very dangerous world.

All propaganda is lies, even when one is telling the truth.

A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it.

Nazi propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels once remarked that if a lie is told often enough people will begin to see the lie as truth.

The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in the heart.

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

If you keep saying two plus two equals five over and over again, then that is what people are going to think. Maybe it does equal five if we keep changing the definition of what's normal and what's right and what's wrong.

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

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.