I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid.
-Robert Brault
Quotations
Lie
Do not assert with your mouth what your heart denies.
-Yin Chih Wen
Am I lying to you if I tell you the same lie I tell myself?
-Robert Brault
Always telling the truth is no doubt better than always lying, although equally pathological
-Robert Brault
If you lie to me, keep lying; don’t hurt me by suddenly telling the truth.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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
Great liars are also Great magicians.
-Adolf Hitler
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
The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!
-Tennessee Williams
