If you lie to me, keep lying; don’t hurt me by suddenly telling the truth.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Quotations
Lie
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
Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Every lie is two lies — the lie we tell others and the lie we tell ourselves to justify it.
-Robert Brault
No man should talk one way with his lips and think another way in his heart.
-The Talmud
"Baba Metzia 49"
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
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
-William Blake
"Auguries of Innocence"
Always telling the truth is no doubt better than always lying, although equally pathological
-Robert Brault
Great liars are also Great magicians.
-Adolf Hitler
