A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
-William Blake
"Auguries of Innocence"
Quotations
Lie
I am a lie who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
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"
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.
-Robert Brault
I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid.
-John Gotti
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"
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
Do not assert with your mouth what your heart denies.
-Yin Chih Wen
Always telling the truth is no doubt better than always lying, although equally pathological
-Robert Brault
