Truth Hiding Quotes

There are two reasons not to tell the truth--becuase lying will get you what you want, and because lying will keep someone from getting hurt.

He occasionally stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened.

The lies we tell ourselves are the most subtle of all lies.

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

The administration shaded the truth … I was part of the propaganda campaign.

Our rulers for more than half a century have made sure that we are never to be told the truth about anything that our government has done to other people, not to mention our own.

Just because you keep something a secret doesn't mean it never happened, no matter how much you want that to be true.

Lying is one of the techniques of politicians .... They are economical with the truth.

Men often stumble onto the truth but then quickly dust themselves off and hurry away.

There are people who are very highly paid to cover the truth and who will protect their clients.

The failure of the system to deal quickly was attributable to Nixon's lying, stonewalling and refusal to come clean. So it took 26 months for the final truth to be known.

Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.

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

It is the oldest story in the coverage of Government: The failure to tell the truth.

Give me just enough information so that I can lie convincingly.

A 'no' does not hide anything, but a 'yes' very easily becomes a deception.

Someone once noted that a 'gaffe' in Washington is when a politician accidentally tells the truth.

A good many things go around in the dark besides Santa Claus.

The schools would fail through their silence, the Church through its forgiveness, and the home through the denial and silence of the parents. The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it.

We should not be upset that others hide the truth from us, when we hide it so often from ourselves

All liars ... lie to protect themselves, to shield their egos from the raw pain of truth.

When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead.

Why do we not hear the truth? Because we do not speak it.

I don't want to be cosy with the guy who I know isn't saying the truth to the viewer.

It contains a misleading impression, not a lie. I was being economical with the truth.