There are three types of lies -- lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-Benjamin Disraeli
Quotations
Lie
I am a lie who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
Am I lying to you if I tell you the same lie I tell myself?
-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
"Disenchantment"
The best revenge on a liar is to convince him that you believe what he said.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
No man should talk one way with his lips and think another way in his heart.
-The Talmud
"Baba Metzia 49"
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
When you lie, tell big lies because in the big lie, there is always a certain force of credibility.
-Adolf Hitler
Do not assert with your mouth what your heart denies.
-Yin Chih Wen
