Quotations
Lie

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

I am a lie who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau

Great liars are also Great magicians.
- Adolf Hitler

No man should talk one way with his lips and think another way in his heart.
- The Talmud

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
- William Blake

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

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

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 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

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

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