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
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Am I lying to you if I tell you the same lie I tell myself?
-Robert Brault
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"
Great liars are also Great magicians.
-Adolf Hitler
Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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
I am a lie who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
Always telling the truth is no doubt better than always lying, although equally pathological
-Robert Brault
There are three types of lies -- lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-Benjamin Disraeli
