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
Quotations
Lie
Always telling the truth is no doubt better than always lying, although equally pathological
-Robert Brault
I am a lie who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
Am I lying to you if I tell you the same lie I tell myself?
-Robert Brault
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
-H. L. Mencken
"A Little Book in C Major"
Hiding how you really feel and trying to make everyone happy doesn't make you nice, it just makes you a liar.
-Jenny O'connell
"The Book of Luke"
Every lie is two lies — the lie we tell others and the lie we tell ourselves to justify it.
-Robert Brault
A lie is just the truth waiting to be itself.
-Terri Guillemets
Great liars are also Great magicians.
-Adolf Hitler
