When you lie, tell big lies because in the big lie, there is always a certain force of credibility.
-Adolf Hitler
Quotations
Lie
Every lie is two lies — the lie we tell others and the lie we tell ourselves to justify it.
-Robert Brault
I am a lie who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
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
Am I lying to you if I tell you the same lie I tell myself?
-Robert Brault
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 truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
-William Blake
"Auguries of Innocence"
Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The best revenge on a liar is to convince him that you believe what he said.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
No man should talk one way with his lips and think another way in his heart.
-The Talmud
"Baba Metzia 49"
