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"
Quotations
Lie
No man should talk one way with his lips and think another way in his heart.
-The Talmud
"Baba Metzia 49"
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
-William Blake
"Auguries of Innocence"
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"
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"
Do not assert with your mouth what your heart denies.
-Yin Chih Wen
The best revenge on a liar is to convince him that you believe what he said.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Always telling the truth is no doubt better than always lying, although equally pathological
-Robert Brault
If you lie to me, keep lying; don’t hurt me by suddenly telling the truth.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!
-Tennessee Williams
