Quotations
Lie
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
The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!
- Tennessee Williams
If you lie to me, keep lying; don’t hurt me by suddenly telling the truth.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Every lie is two lies — the lie we tell others and the lie we tell ourselves to justify it.
- Robert Brault
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
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
- William Blake
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
When you lie, tell big lies because in the big lie, there is always a certain force of credibility.
- Adolf Hitler
Always telling the truth is no doubt better than always lying, although equally pathological
- Robert Brault
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