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
Quotations
Lie
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
There are three types of lies -- lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-Benjamin Disraeli
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"
Am I lying to you if I tell you the same lie I tell myself?
-Robert Brault
A lie is just the truth waiting to be itself.
-Terri Guillemets
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
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
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
-William Blake
"Auguries of Innocence"
