Quotations
Lie
A lie is just the truth waiting to be itself.
- Terri Guillemets
Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The best revenge on a liar is to convince him that you believe what he said.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
There are three types of lies -- lies, damned lies, and statistics.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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
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
I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid.
- John Gotti
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
Every lie is two lies — the lie we tell others and the lie we tell ourselves to justify it.
- Robert Brault
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