Always telling the truth is no doubt better than always lying, although equally pathological
-Robert Brault
Quotations
Lie
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
-William Blake
"Auguries of Innocence"
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
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
When you lie, tell big lies because in the big lie, there is always a certain force of credibility.
-Adolf Hitler
I am a lie who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
There are three types of lies -- lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-Benjamin Disraeli
Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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"
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"
