If you lie to me, keep lying; don’t hurt me by suddenly telling the truth.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Quotations
Lie
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
The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!
-Tennessee 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
Am I lying to you if I tell you the same lie I tell myself?
-Robert Brault
There are three types of lies -- lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-Benjamin Disraeli
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
When you lie, tell big lies because in the big lie, there is always a certain force of credibility.
-Adolf Hitler
I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid.
-John Gotti
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"
