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
Quotations
Lie
Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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"
Do not assert with your mouth what your heart denies.
-Yin Chih Wen
Every lie is two lies — the lie we tell others and the lie we tell ourselves to justify it.
-Robert Brault
I am a lie who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
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"
I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid.
-Robert Brault
The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!
-Tennessee Williams
Great liars are also Great magicians.
-Adolf Hitler
