“He would say untruths and be ever double, Both in his words and meaning”
William Shakespeare
“They have committed false report; moreover, they have spoken untruths; secondarily, they are slanders; sixth and lastly, they have belied a lady; thirdly, they have verified unjust things; and to conclude, they are lying knaves”
“The most dangerous untruths are truths moderately distorted.”
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
“A new untruth is better than an old truth.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Newspapers, television networks, and magazines have sometimes been outrageously abusive, untruthful, arrogant, and hypocritical. But it hardly follows that elimination of a strong and independent press is the way to eliminate abusiveness . . .”
Potter Stewart
“No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.”
Abraham Lincoln
“The camera cannot lie, but it can be an accessory to untruth.”
Harold Evans
