There are three types of lies -- lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-Benjamin Disraeli
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"
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"
Great liars are also Great magicians.
-Adolf Hitler
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
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
I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid.
-Robert Brault
A lie is just the truth waiting to be itself.
-Terri Guillemets
If you lie to me, keep lying; don’t hurt me by suddenly telling the truth.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
