Do not assert with your mouth what your heart denies.
-Yin Chih Wen
Quotations
Lie
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"
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
Am I lying to you if I tell you the same lie I tell myself?
-Robert Brault
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"
There are three types of lies -- lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-Benjamin Disraeli
The best revenge on a liar is to convince him that you believe what he said.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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"
Every lie is two lies — the lie we tell others and the lie we tell ourselves to justify it.
-Robert Brault
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
-William Blake
"Auguries of Innocence"
