Quotations
Lie
The best revenge on a liar is to convince him that you believe what he said.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!
- Tennessee Williams
No man should talk one way with his lips and think another way in his heart.
- The Talmud
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
Do not assert with your mouth what your heart denies.
- Yin Chih Wen
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
I am a lie who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
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
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
- H. L. Mencken
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