Metaphorically True/Quotes

"Max: You killed him! Vincent: No, I shot him. The bullets and the fall killed him."

- Collateral

"A halbe emes iz a gantse lign. (Half a truth is a whole lie.)"

- Yiddish proverb

"And I will not lie to you But I definitely only gave you half the truth..."

- The Kaiser Chiefs

"Jedi Exile: Well, lying is lying, even from a "certain point of view.""

- Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2

"Obi Wan: What I told you was true...from a certain point of view. Luke: That's Jedi code for 'I just lied my butt off', isn't it?"

- Irregular Webcomic

"Harry: I've never lied to you, I've always told you some version of the truth. Erica: The truth doesn't have versions, okay?"

- Something's Gotta Give

"Laura: But... I thought you said you worked in a hotel? How can you afford this?! Sixx: I said I worked in the hotel business. Which I do. By which I meant I own a few hundred..."

- Collar 6

"In a manner of speaking, yes. In another manner of speaking, which is a rather more precise and accurate manner of speaking, no."

- Carrot's father

"The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes, look behind words that have changed their meaning."

- Terry Pratchett

"Aberrations of the human mind are to a large extent due to the obsessional pursuit of some part-truth, treated as if it were a whole truth."

- The Ghost in the Machine by Arthur Koestler

"Not the violent conflict between parts of the truth, but the quiet suppression of half of it, is the formidable evil; there is always hope when people are forced to listen to both sides; it is when they attend to only one that errors harden into prejudices, and truth itself ceases to have the effect of truth, by being exaggerated into falsehood."

- John Stuart Mill