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
I am a lie who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid.
-Robert Brault
Do not assert with your mouth what your heart denies.
-Yin Chih Wen
The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!
-Tennessee Williams
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"
If you lie to me, keep lying; don’t hurt me by suddenly telling the truth.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Great liars are also Great magicians.
-Adolf Hitler
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
-William Blake
"Auguries of Innocence"
Every lie is two lies — the lie we tell others and the lie we tell ourselves to justify it.
-Robert Brault
