I am a lie who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
Quotations
Lie
Do not assert with your mouth what your heart denies.
-Yin Chih Wen
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
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 best revenge on a liar is to convince him that you believe what he said.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Always telling the truth is no doubt better than always lying, although equally pathological
-Robert Brault
When you lie, tell big lies because in the big lie, there is always a certain force of credibility.
-Adolf Hitler
I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid.
-John Gotti
The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!
-Tennessee Williams
