I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid.
-Robert Brault
Quotations
Lie
The best revenge on a liar is to convince him that you believe what he said.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
No man should talk one way with his lips and think another way in his heart.
-The Talmud
"Baba Metzia 49"
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"
Every lie is two lies — the lie we tell others and the lie we tell ourselves to justify it.
-Robert Brault
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
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
I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid.
-John Gotti
