Quotations
Lie

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

Always telling the truth is no doubt better than always lying, although equally pathological
- Robert Brault

If you lie to me, keep lying; don’t hurt me by suddenly telling the truth.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
- William Blake

A lie is just the truth waiting to be itself.
- Terri Guillemets

There are three types of lies -- lies, damned lies, and statistics.
- Benjamin Disraeli

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

No man should talk one way with his lips and think another way in his heart.
- The Talmud

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

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