I am a lie who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
Quotations
Lie
A lie is just the truth waiting to be itself.
-Terri Guillemets
When you lie, tell big lies because in the big lie, there is always a certain force of credibility.
-Adolf Hitler
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
-William Blake
"Auguries of Innocence"
Great liars are also Great magicians.
-Adolf Hitler
No man should talk one way with his lips and think another way in his heart.
-The Talmud
"Baba Metzia 49"
I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid.
-Robert Brault
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
The best revenge on a liar is to convince him that you believe what he said.
-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"
