Winston Churchill Quotes About Lying
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A small lie needs a bodyguard of bigger lies to protect it.
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Laws just or unjust may govern men's actions. Tyrannies may restrain or regulate their words. The machinery of propaganda may pack their minds with falsehood and deny them truth for many generations of time. But the soul of man thus held in trance or frozen in a long night can be awakened by a spark coming from God knows where and in a moment the whole structure of lies and oppression is on trial for its life.
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Mr Churchill, to what do you attribute your success in life? Conservation of energy. Never stand up when you can sit down. And never sit down when you can lie down.
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The Russian Bolsheviks have discovered that truth does not matter so long as there is reiteration. They have no difficulty whatever in countering a fact by a lie which, if repeated often enough and loudly enough, becomes accepted by the people.
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If this long island story of ours is to end at last, let it end only when each one of us lies, choking in his own blood upon the ground.
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Whenever I feel the need to take some exercise I lie down until the feeling goes away.
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From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Atlantic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind the line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe... All these famous cities and the populations around them lie in what I must call the Soviet sphere, and all are subject in one form or another, not only to Soviet influence but to a very high and, in many cases, increasing measure of control from Moscow.
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The person of truth must be covered with bodyguards of lies.
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There are no limits to the majestic future which lies before the mighty expanse of Canada with its virile, aspiring, cultured, and generous-hearted people.
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I no longer listen to what people say, I just watch what they do. Behavior never lies.
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[The politician] is asked to stand, he wants to sit, and he is expected to lie.
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A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
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In war, the truth must be guarded by a body guard of lies.
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There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.
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Safety and certainty in oil lie in variety, and variety alone.
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In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
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Study history, study history. In history lie all the secrets of statecraft.
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Winston Churchill
- Born: November 30, 1874
- Died: January 24, 1965
- Occupation: Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
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