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
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 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"
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
If you lie to me, keep lying; don’t hurt me by suddenly telling the truth.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Every lie is two lies — the lie we tell others and the lie we tell ourselves to justify it.
-Robert Brault
Always telling the truth is no doubt better than always lying, although equally pathological
-Robert Brault
There are three types of lies -- lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-Benjamin Disraeli
A lie is just the truth waiting to be itself.
-Terri Guillemets
