I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid.
-John Gotti
Quotations
Lie
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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
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"
The best revenge on a liar is to convince him that you believe what he said.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
-William Blake
"Auguries of Innocence"
A lie is just the truth waiting to be itself.
-Terri Guillemets
Always telling the truth is no doubt better than always lying, although equally pathological
-Robert Brault
No man should talk one way with his lips and think another way in his heart.
-The Talmud
"Baba Metzia 49"
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"
