Every lie is two lies — the lie we tell others and the lie we tell ourselves to justify it.
-Robert Brault
Quotations
Lie
I am a lie who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!
-Tennessee Williams
I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid.
-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"
Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
When you lie, tell big lies because in the big lie, there is always a certain force of credibility.
-Adolf Hitler
A lie is just the truth waiting to be itself.
-Terri Guillemets
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
-William Blake
"Auguries of Innocence"
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
