Quotations
Lie
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
Am I lying to you if I tell you the same lie I tell myself?
- 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
When you lie, tell big lies because in the big lie, there is always a certain force of credibility.
- Adolf Hitler
Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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
The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!
- Tennessee Williams
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.
- Robert Brault
I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid.
- John Gotti
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