“Lawrence of Arabia” is a pretty good movie, with a lot of great lines. For example, Feisal’s “[w]ith Major Lawrence, mercy is a passion. With me, it is merely good manners. You may judge which motive is the more reliable.”
But the one I want to mention particularly today is spoken by Mr. Dryden:
Let’s have no displays of indignation. You may not have known, but you certainly had suspicions. If we’ve told lies, you’ve told half-lies, and a man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth, but a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it.
I’m not sure that that’s true, but it might be, and certainly ought to be.
