Quotations
Lie
Hiding how you really feel and trying to make everyone happy doesn't make you nice, it just makes you a liar.
- Jenny O'connell
Am I lying to you if I tell you the same lie I tell myself?
- Robert Brault
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 never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid.
- Robert Brault
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
Every lie is two lies — the lie we tell others and the lie we tell ourselves to justify it.
- Robert Brault
A lie is just the truth waiting to be itself.
- Terri Guillemets
No man should talk one way with his lips and think another way in his heart.
- The Talmud
Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.
- Hannah Arendt
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