A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
-William Blake
"Auguries of Innocence"
Quotations
Lie
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"
Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid.
-John Gotti
There are three types of lies -- lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-Benjamin Disraeli
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
Always telling the truth is no doubt better than always lying, although equally pathological
-Robert Brault
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
When you lie, tell big lies because in the big lie, there is always a certain force of credibility.
-Adolf Hitler
Am I lying to you if I tell you the same lie I tell myself?
-Robert Brault
