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
Every lie is two lies — the lie we tell others and the lie we tell ourselves to justify it.
- Robert Brault
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
- William Blake
I am a lie who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!
- Tennessee Williams
I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid.
- John Gotti
Do not assert with your mouth what your heart denies.
- Yin Chih Wen
When you lie, tell big lies because in the big lie, there is always a certain force of credibility.
- Adolf Hitler
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
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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