If you lie to me, keep lying; don’t hurt me by suddenly telling the truth.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Quotations
Lie
I am a lie who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
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
Do not assert with your mouth what your heart denies.
-Yin Chih Wen
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 Book of Luke"
When you lie, tell big lies because in the big lie, there is always a certain force of credibility.
-Adolf Hitler
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
The best revenge on a liar is to convince him that you believe what he said.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
