I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid.
-Robert Brault
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
Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears.
-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"
Do not assert with your mouth what your heart denies.
-Yin Chih Wen
If you lie to me, keep lying; don’t hurt me by suddenly telling the truth.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Always telling the truth is no doubt better than always lying, although equally pathological
-Robert Brault
Every lie is two lies — the lie we tell others and the lie we tell ourselves to justify it.
-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
