Storm Jameson Lying Quotations

In my firm, we dealt in lies. Advertising is that ... the skilful use of the truth to mislead, to spoil, to debase.

... the truth is exactly that which can't be got into words. We are forced to lie, a little or, if we are inferior, much.

Truth is the only good and the purest pity. ... Men lie for profit or for pity. All lies turn to poison, but a lie that is told for pity or shame breeds such a host of ills that no power on earth can compass their redemption.

A politician is forced to make a habit of noble phrases and optimistic lies. In the end they infect himself.

I do not think about absent persons as often or with such intense longing as I think of places. They lie one below the other in my mind ...

all writers who can claim to be called 'living' must be political in a sense. They must have what the Quakers call a concern to understand what is happening in the world, and must engage themselves, in their writing, to promote no comfortable lies, of the sort which people will pay well to be told rather than the truth ...