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"
Quotations
Lie
When you lie, tell big lies because in the big lie, there is always a certain force of credibility.
-Adolf Hitler
There are three types of lies -- lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-Benjamin Disraeli
Am I lying to you if I tell you the same lie I tell myself?
-Robert Brault
I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid.
-John Gotti
Always telling the truth is no doubt better than always lying, although equally pathological
-Robert Brault
The best revenge on a liar is to convince him that you believe what he said.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Hiding how you really feel and trying to make everyone happy doesn't make you nice, it just makes you a liar.
-Jenny O'connell
"The Book of Luke"
If you lie to me, keep lying; don’t hurt me by suddenly telling the truth.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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
