“The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.”
Malcolm Bradbury (1932–2000) English author and academic
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Stepping Westward (1965)
“Sometimes it’s difficult in politics to actually tell the truth.”
As quoted in Kapil Sibal Waxes Poetic http://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2012/01/21/kapil-sibal-waxes-poetic/, Wall Street Journal (21 January 2012)
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