Am I lying to you if I tell you the same lie I tell myself?
-Robert Brault
Quotations
Lie
A lie is just the truth waiting to be itself.
-Terri Guillemets
A liar lies to himself as well as to the gods. Lying is the origin of all evils; it leads to rebirth in the miserable planes of existence, to breach of the pure precepts, and to corruption of the body.
-Maharatnakuta Sutra 27
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
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
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"
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
Great liars are also Great magicians.
-Adolf Hitler
