A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
-William Blake
"Auguries of Innocence"
Quotations
Lie
Do not assert with your mouth what your heart denies.
-Yin Chih Wen
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
The best revenge on a liar is to convince him that you believe what he said.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I am a lie who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
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
No man should talk one way with his lips and think another way in his heart.
-The Talmud
"Baba Metzia 49"
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
