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"
Quotations
Lie
The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!
-Tennessee 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
I am a lie who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
Always telling the truth is no doubt better than always lying, although equally pathological
-Robert Brault
The best revenge on a liar is to convince him that you believe what he said.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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
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"
Am I lying to you if I tell you the same lie I tell myself?
-Robert Brault
I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid.
-John Gotti
