Quotations
Lie
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
The best revenge on a liar is to convince him that you believe what he said.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
A lie is just the truth waiting to be itself.
- Terri Guillemets
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
- William Blake
There are three types of lies -- lies, damned lies, and statistics.
- Benjamin Disraeli
I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid.
- Robert Brault
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
The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!
- Tennessee Williams
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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