I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid.
-Robert Brault
Quotations
Lie
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"
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"
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"
The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!
-Tennessee Williams
There are three types of lies -- lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-Benjamin Disraeli
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 am a lie who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
Always telling the truth is no doubt better than always lying, although equally pathological
-Robert Brault
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
