The best revenge on a liar is to convince him that you believe what he said.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Quotations
Lie
Always telling the truth is no doubt better than always lying, although equally pathological
-Robert Brault
The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!
-Tennessee Williams
Do not assert with your mouth what your heart denies.
-Yin Chih Wen
I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid.
-Robert Brault
I am a lie who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
When you lie, tell big lies because in the big lie, there is always a certain force of credibility.
-Adolf Hitler
Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
-William Blake
"Auguries of Innocence"
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
