I am a lie who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
Quotations
Lie
When you lie, tell big lies because in the big lie, there is always a certain force of credibility.
-Adolf Hitler
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
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
I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid.
-John Gotti
I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid.
-Robert Brault
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
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"
If you lie to me, keep lying; don’t hurt me by suddenly telling the truth.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Great liars are also Great magicians.
-Adolf Hitler
