I am a lie who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
Quotations
Lie
The best revenge on a liar is to convince him that you believe what he said.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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
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
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
The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!
-Tennessee Williams
Every lie is two lies — the lie we tell others and the lie we tell ourselves to justify it.
-Robert Brault
I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid.
-Robert Brault
