Quotations
Lie
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
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
- William Blake
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
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
The best revenge on a liar is to convince him that you believe what he said.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I am a lie who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
No man should talk one way with his lips and think another way in his heart.
- The Talmud
Do not assert with your mouth what your heart denies.
- Yin Chih Wen
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