Quotations
Lie

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

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

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
- H. L. Mencken

Great liars are also Great magicians.
- Adolf Hitler

If you lie to me, keep lying; don’t hurt me by suddenly telling the truth.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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

Always telling the truth is no doubt better than always lying, although equally pathological
- Robert Brault

I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid.
- John Gotti

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

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

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