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"
Quotations
Lie
Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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"
Do not assert with your mouth what your heart denies.
-Yin Chih Wen
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
No man should talk one way with his lips and think another way in his heart.
-The Talmud
"Baba Metzia 49"
Great liars are also Great magicians.
-Adolf Hitler
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
The best revenge on a liar is to convince him that you believe what he said.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
