Quotations
Lie

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

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

Every lie is two lies — the lie we tell others and the lie we tell ourselves to justify it.
- Robert Brault

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

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

I am a lie who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau

Do not assert with your mouth what your heart denies.
- Yin Chih Wen

Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb

A lie is just the truth waiting to be itself.
- Terri Guillemets

There are three types of lies -- lies, damned lies, and statistics.
- Benjamin Disraeli

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