Am I lying to you if I tell you the same lie I tell myself?
-Robert Brault
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"
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
I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid.
-Robert Brault