Every lie is two lies — the lie we tell others and the lie we tell ourselves to justify it.
-Robert Brault
Quotations
Lie
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
There are three types of lies -- lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-Benjamin Disraeli
When you lie, tell big lies because in the big lie, there is always a certain force of credibility.
-Adolf Hitler
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
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Do not assert with your mouth what your heart denies.
-Yin Chih Wen
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
-William Blake
"Auguries of Innocence"
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"
No man should talk one way with his lips and think another way in his heart.
-The Talmud
"Baba Metzia 49"
