No man should talk one way with his lips and think another way in his heart.
-The Talmud
"Baba Metzia 49"
Quotations
Lie
When you lie, tell big lies because in the big lie, there is always a certain force of credibility.
-Adolf Hitler
There are three types of lies -- lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-Benjamin Disraeli
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"
Always telling the truth is no doubt better than always lying, although equally pathological
-Robert Brault
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
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
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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
"Disenchantment"
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"
