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
Quotations
Lie
No man should talk one way with his lips and think another way in his heart.
-The Talmud
"Baba Metzia 49"
I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid.
-Robert Brault
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 Little Book in C Major"
Great liars are also Great magicians.
-Adolf Hitler
Do not assert with your mouth what your heart denies.
-Yin Chih Wen
Am I lying to you if I tell you the same lie I tell myself?
-Robert Brault
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
-William Blake
"Auguries of Innocence"
I am a lie who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
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
