There are three types of lies -- lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-Benjamin Disraeli
Quotations
Lie
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"
Great liars are also Great magicians.
-Adolf Hitler
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
-William Blake
"Auguries of Innocence"
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
A lie is just the truth waiting to be itself.
-Terri Guillemets
Am I lying to you if I tell you the same lie I tell myself?
-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
Always telling the truth is no doubt better than always lying, although equally pathological
-Robert Brault
The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!
-Tennessee Williams
