Always telling the truth is no doubt better than always lying, although equally pathological
-Robert Brault
Quotations
Lie
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"
Every lie is two lies — the lie we tell others and the lie we tell ourselves to justify it.
-Robert Brault
If you lie to me, keep lying; don’t hurt me by suddenly telling the truth.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Do not assert with your mouth what your heart denies.
-Yin Chih Wen
I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid.
-John Gotti
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
I am a lie who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
A lie is just the truth waiting to be itself.
-Terri Guillemets
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
