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
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 never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid.
-Robert Brault
When you lie, tell big lies because in the big lie, there is always a certain force of credibility.
-Adolf Hitler
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"
If you lie to me, keep lying; don’t hurt me by suddenly telling the truth.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
A lie is just the truth waiting to be itself.
-Terri Guillemets
The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.
-Hannah Arendt
