Half a truth is often a great lie

That a lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies;
That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright;
But a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight.

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth.

The assertion that you are in falsehood and I am in truth ist the most cruel thing one man can say to another

There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.

What a fool honesty is.

Half of tradition is a lie.

Dissembling was so large a part of middle-class life that honesty and frankness seemed the most devious stratagem of all. The most outright lie was the closest one came to truth.

There are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.

The truths that matter most to us come always half spoken.

Silence is the cruelest of cruelties.

"Nothing is more deceitful," said Darcy, "than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast."

One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.