Quotations
Lie
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
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid.
- John Gotti
Every lie is two lies — the lie we tell others and the lie we tell ourselves to justify it.
- Robert Brault
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
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
I am a lie who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
The best revenge on a liar is to convince him that you believe what he said.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Great liars are also Great magicians.
- Adolf Hitler
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
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