Every lie is two lies — the lie we tell others and the lie we tell ourselves to justify it.
-Robert Brault
Quotations
Lie
There are three types of lies -- lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-Benjamin Disraeli
The best revenge on a liar is to convince him that you believe what he said.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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
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.
-John Gotti
No man should talk one way with his lips and think another way in his heart.
-The Talmud
"Baba Metzia 49"
Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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"
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"
