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"
Quotations
Lie
I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid.
-Robert Brault
If you lie to me, keep lying; don’t hurt me by suddenly telling the truth.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
-William Blake
"Auguries of Innocence"
Am I lying to you if I tell you the same lie I tell myself?
-Robert Brault
The best revenge on a liar is to convince him that you believe what he said.
-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"
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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
