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
I am a lie who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
Every lie is two lies — the lie we tell others and the lie we tell ourselves to justify it.
-Robert Brault
We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.
-Robert Paul “Tad” Williams
I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid.
-Robert Brault
Always telling the truth is no doubt better than always lying, although equally pathological
-Robert Brault
I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid.
-John Gotti
Do not assert with your mouth what your heart denies.
-Yin Chih Wen
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"
A lie is just the truth waiting to be itself.
-Terri Guillemets
