Quotations
Lie
The best revenge on a liar is to convince him that you believe what he said.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.
- Charles Edward Montague
The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!
- Tennessee Williams
There are three types of lies -- lies, damned lies, and statistics.
- Benjamin Disraeli
We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.
- Robert Paul “Tad” Williams
Every lie is two lies — the lie we tell others and the lie we tell ourselves to justify it.
- Robert Brault
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
- William Blake
I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid.
- John Gotti
A liar lies to himself as well as to the gods. Lying is the origin of all evils; it leads to rebirth in the miserable planes of existence, to breach of the pure precepts, and to corruption of the body.
- Maharatnakuta Sutra 27
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