Great liars are also Great magicians.
-Adolf Hitler
Quotations
Lie
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"
No man should talk one way with his lips and think another way in his heart.
-The Talmud
"Baba Metzia 49"
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"
I am a lie who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
-William Blake
"Auguries of Innocence"
Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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
