Am I lying to you if I tell you the same lie I tell myself?
-Robert Brault
Quotations
Lie
The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!
-Tennessee Williams
Every lie is two lies — the lie we tell others and the lie we tell ourselves to justify it.
-Robert Brault
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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"
No man should talk one way with his lips and think another way in his heart.
-The Talmud
"Baba Metzia 49"
The best revenge on a liar is to convince him that you believe what he said.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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
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"
There are three types of lies -- lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-Benjamin Disraeli
