Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Quotations
Lie
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
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
-William Blake
"Auguries of Innocence"
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"
