Quotations
Lie

The best revenge on a liar is to convince him that you believe what he said.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid.
- John Gotti

Every lie is two lies — the lie we tell others and the lie we tell ourselves to justify it.
- Robert Brault

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

No man should talk one way with his lips and think another way in his heart.
- The Talmud

The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!
- Tennessee Williams

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
- William Blake

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

Do not assert with your mouth what your heart denies.
- Yin Chih Wen

Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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