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
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
There are three types of lies -- lies, damned lies, and statistics.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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
Always telling the truth is no doubt better than always lying, although equally pathological
- Robert Brault
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid.
- John Gotti
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