Am I lying to you if I tell you the same lie I tell myself?
-Robert Brault
Quotations
Lie
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
If you lie to me, keep lying; don’t hurt me by suddenly telling the truth.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Always telling the truth is no doubt better than always lying, although equally pathological
-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"
Do not assert with your mouth what your heart denies.
-Yin Chih Wen
There are three types of lies -- lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-Benjamin Disraeli
I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid.
-John Gotti
The best revenge on a liar is to convince him that you believe what he said.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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
