I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid.
-John Gotti
Quotations
Lie
Do not assert with your mouth what your heart denies.
-Yin Chih Wen
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
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"
A lie is just the truth waiting to be itself.
-Terri Guillemets
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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
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
Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
