Quotations
Lie
I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid.
- John Gotti
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 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
Every lie is two lies — the lie we tell others and the lie we tell ourselves to justify it.
- Robert Brault
Great liars are also Great magicians.
- Adolf Hitler
When you lie, tell big lies because in the big lie, there is always a certain force of credibility.
- Adolf Hitler
The best revenge on a liar is to convince him that you believe what he said.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Always telling the truth is no doubt better than always lying, although equally pathological
- 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
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