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
Every lie is two lies — the lie we tell others and the lie we tell ourselves to justify it.
-Robert Brault
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"
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
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
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
-H. L. Mencken
"A Little Book in C Major"
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
