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"
Quotations
Lie
Am I lying to you if I tell you the same lie I tell myself?
-Robert Brault
A lie is just the truth waiting to be itself.
-Terri Guillemets
Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!
-Tennessee Williams
Do not assert with your mouth what your heart denies.
-Yin Chih Wen
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
-William Blake
"Auguries of Innocence"
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
There are three types of lies -- lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-Benjamin Disraeli
The best revenge on a liar is to convince him that you believe what he said.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
