A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
-William Blake
"Auguries of Innocence"
Quotations
Lie
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
I am a lie who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid.
-Robert Brault
No man should talk one way with his lips and think another way in his heart.
-The Talmud
"Baba Metzia 49"
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"
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"
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
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"
If you lie to me, keep lying; don’t hurt me by suddenly telling the truth.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
