I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid.
-John Gotti
Quotations
Lie
Do not assert with your mouth what your heart denies.
-Yin Chih Wen
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
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
-William Blake
"Auguries of Innocence"
Always telling the truth is no doubt better than always lying, although equally pathological
-Robert Brault
Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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"
Every lie is two lies — the lie we tell others and the lie we tell ourselves to justify it.
-Robert Brault
Am I lying to you if I tell you the same lie I tell myself?
-Robert Brault
No man should talk one way with his lips and think another way in his heart.
-The Talmud
"Baba Metzia 49"
