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
Quotations
Lie
Do not assert with your mouth what your heart denies.
-Yin Chih Wen
I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid.
-Robert Brault
Every lie is two lies — the lie we tell others and the lie we tell ourselves to justify it.
-Robert Brault
No man should talk one way with his lips and think another way in his heart.
-The Talmud
"Baba Metzia 49"
I am a lie who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
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"
When you lie, tell big lies because in the big lie, there is always a certain force of credibility.
-Adolf Hitler
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
If you lie to me, keep lying; don’t hurt me by suddenly telling the truth.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
