Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
610
AUTHOR:
Woodrow Wilson (18561924)
QUOTATION:
The best way in which to silence any friend of yours whom you know to be a fool is to induce him to hire a hall. Nothing chills pretense like exposure.
ATTRIBUTION:
President WOODROW WILSON, remarks to the Motion Picture Board of Trade, New York City, January 27, 1916.The Papers of Woodrow Wilson, ed. Arthur S. Link, vol. 36, p. 17 (1981).