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
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
-William Blake
"Auguries of Innocence"
Always telling the truth is no doubt better than always lying, although equally pathological
-Robert Brault
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
Do not assert with your mouth what your heart denies.
-Yin Chih Wen
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
Great liars are also Great magicians.
-Adolf Hitler
Every lie is two lies — the lie we tell others and the lie we tell ourselves to justify it.
-Robert Brault
There are three types of lies -- lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-Benjamin Disraeli
