WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Fri, 07 Aug 2026 20:07:55 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.3 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.3 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg half-lies – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Bolt, Robert -- Lawrence of Arabia, Part 2, sc. 189 (1962) [with Michael Wilson] https://wist.info/bolt-robert/19531/ https://wist.info/bolt-robert/19531/#respond Fri, 02 Nov 2012 11:59:18 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=19531 DRYDEN: If we’ve told lies you’ve told half-lies … And a man who tells lies — like me — merely hides the truth. (softly) But a man who tells half-lies … has forgotten where he put it.


Robert Bolt (1924-1995) English dramatist
Lawrence of Arabia, Part 2, sc. 189 (1962) [with Michael Wilson]
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Speaking to Lawrence about the Sykes-Picot Agreement, dividing the Turkish Empire between French and English interests, and its betrayal of their Arab allies. ]]> https://wist.info/bolt-robert/19531/feed/ 0 19531