Quotations
Lie
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
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
The best revenge on a liar is to convince him that you believe what he said.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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
Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid.
- Robert Brault
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
A lie is just the truth waiting to be itself.
- Terri Guillemets
Always telling the truth is no doubt better than always lying, although equally pathological
- Robert Brault
Great liars are also Great magicians.
- Adolf Hitler
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