It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
-H. L. Mencken
"A Little Book in C Major"
Quotations
Lie
Am I lying to you if I tell you the same lie I tell myself?
-Robert Brault
When you lie, tell big lies because in the big lie, there is always a certain force of credibility.
-Adolf Hitler
No man should talk one way with his lips and think another way in his heart.
-The Talmud
"Baba Metzia 49"
The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!
-Tennessee Williams
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
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"
There are three types of lies -- lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-Benjamin Disraeli
Great liars are also Great magicians.
-Adolf Hitler
