“763. Better speake truth rudely then lye covertly.”
George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“Half the Truth is often as arrant a Lye, as can be made.”
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections
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“An aphorism can never be the whole truth; it is either a half-truth or a truth-and-a-half.”
Karl Kraus (1874–1936) Czech playwright and publicist
Die Fackel no. 270/71 (19 January 1909)
Die Fackel
“Children and fooles cannot lye.”
John Heywood (1497–1580) English writer known for plays, poems and a collection of proverbs
Part I, chapter 11.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Variant: Children and fooles cannot lye.
“Ambush'd in grass, a deadly Serpent lyes.”
John Ogilby (1600–1676) Scottish academic
The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Bucolicks
“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Variant: A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) American art collector and experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays
An American and France (1936)
“Trojans beware, within some Mischief lyes;
Be what it will, Greeks bringing Gifts I fear.”
John Ogilby (1600–1676) Scottish academic
The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Æneis
“It’s always better to tell a half-truth than a half-lie.”
Ben Aaronovitch book Moon Over Soho
Source: Moon Over Soho (2011), Chapter 13, “Autumn Leaves” (p. 277)
