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lies, dam lies and statistics
Who said, 'There are three kinds of lies, lies, dam lies and statistics'?
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Having just read Mark Twain's autobiograph y, I can state that Twain definitely attributes it to Disraeli.
11:37 Wed 26th Jan 2011
Thin ice people, thin ice if you google it you will also find that Benjamine Disraeli also credited for it.
I had this question in a pub quiz years ago and said Twain answer was given as Disraeli, I went up in arms, but the internet is not definitive. I wrote to "letters to the correspondants" in the Mail and got it published but nobody could give a one name answer.
So good luck.
I had this question in a pub quiz years ago and said Twain answer was given as Disraeli, I went up in arms, but the internet is not definitive. I wrote to "letters to the correspondants" in the Mail and got it published but nobody could give a one name answer.
So good luck.
Molly from Wikipedia so pinch of salt but
The term was popularised in the United States by Mark Twain (among others), who attributed it to the 19th-century British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881): "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." However, the phrase is not found in any of Disraeli's works and the earliest known appearances were years after his death. Other coiners have therefore been proposed. The most plausible, given current evidence, is Englishman Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke (1843–1911).[
The term was popularised in the United States by Mark Twain (among others), who attributed it to the 19th-century British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881): "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." However, the phrase is not found in any of Disraeli's works and the earliest known appearances were years after his death. Other coiners have therefore been proposed. The most plausible, given current evidence, is Englishman Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke (1843–1911).[
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