A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
-William Blake
"Auguries of Innocence"
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"
Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
There are three types of lies -- lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-Benjamin Disraeli
I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid.
-John Gotti
Always telling the truth is no doubt better than always lying, although equally pathological
-Robert Brault
Am I lying to you if I tell you the same lie I tell myself?
-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
Every lie is two lies — the lie we tell others and the lie we tell ourselves to justify it.
-Robert Brault
